Hi Robert,
Below is the info I posted previously.
Though this hasn't been mentioned in the recent threads, I've found the no
counterpoise antenna and 20 foot crappie pole combo to work well. The
shorter version is 25 feet of zip cord (two conductor insulated wire) you
can split the two conductors apart from one end to the 12.5 foot point and
remove the 12.5 foot section of one conductor thus freed. The goal is to end
up with zip cord with a 25 foot conductor and a 12.5 foot conductor. I load
this quite successfully through a 4-1 balun into my IC-703+ It will work
from 6-20 meters and requires no counterpoise. If you don't want to split
the zip cord and remove half of one conductor, you can remove a few inches
of one of the conductors, creating the necessary 12.5 foot wire, just be
sure to make a gap big enough to ensure no coupling. You can make longer
versions to be able to load lower bands, the technique is the same, simply
remove 1/2 of one of the conductors and make it 50 feet, 100 feet, etc. My
plan is to make a 50-foot version as an inverted l so that I can try it on
40-meters and I'd really like to try a 100-foot version and see how it works
on 80. This is, as I understand it, another twist on the end-fed zepp.
Ron Miller
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Subject: Re: Ling wire kits for hf
Ron,
I am afraid I did not read that. No counterpoise?
Quote of the nanosecond...
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On 7/20/2012 11:35 PM, Ron Miller wrote:
> The no counterpoise antenna I described earlier works well for this
> application.
>
> Ron Miller
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Robert C
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 2:47 PM
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> Subject: Ling wire kits for hf
>
> Ran into a local ham who suggested I find a long wire antenna kit
and
> just toss it out the window, Well maybe not quite that simple. But, if
> I can pick up anything while waiting for a more permanent solution, why
not?
>
> Any sellers on eBay who sell good kits? Or other sources? Thanks.
>
> Quote of the nanosecond...
> Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
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