Hi I am using 58 feet of wire as a quarter wave on 75 meters and would like to know how to make a compact counter poise to balance the ground side. I have maybe 6 feet to comfortably install such a thing. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Mark WZ0K God loves you! My personal prayer book. Add your prayer or pray for others at the following link. http://prayerbook.homewithgod.com/cgi-bin/prayerbook/multi.pl?131961113534708:24:0 http://lists.topica.com/lists/funhamradio. http://groups.google.com/group/funhamradio-list http://funhamradio.bloki.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:16 PM Subject: Re: autotuners > Hi Andy. > > With counterpoises cut for each of the bands and fastened to the ground > side of that antenna system, 70 ft. of wire should be enough to get you on > the HF bands above 3.5 MHz. (including 3.5 MHz). The whole trick is > getting the counterpoises right--it shouldn't be that demanding on the > tuner. > > 73, de Lou K2LKK > > > > At 02:17 AM 6/1/2006 +0100, you wrote: >>Hello Gary Ok this could take two emails to do this, Here is a >>description >>of the garden it is 35FT long and 17.6 FT wide, so you can see not much >>chance of a good size antenna. however try and picture this, starting >>from >>the bottom of the garden left hand side starts the wire going across the >>garden to the right hand side, now from here it goes diagonally to the >>back wall of the house where it will terminate, the SGC is at the bottom >>of >>the garden where the wire starts, the total length is seventy feet. I am >>however going to get a vertical antenna made by Diamond the CP 6. >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Gary Lee" <[log in to unmask]> >>To: <[log in to unmask]> >>Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 12:44 AM >>Subject: autotuners >> >> >> > For Andy. >> > >> > Andy, I don't know what random length of wire you are trying to tune, >> > and >> > for what frequency, but I have had extremely good luck with the atu in >> > my >> > elecraft k2, as well as the ldg z-100, and the atu in the kenwood >> > ts2000. >> > I have a 90 foot wire configured as a half sloper, tying the shield of >> > the >> > coax to a 32 foot steel tower which is then grounded to an 8 foot >> > ground >> > rod. >> > >> > Tunes well on all bands except 30 meters. For that, I use a manual >> > tuner >> > behind the autotuner to give it just a little help. >> > >> > I have also used a 44 foot doublet fed with 300 ohm twinlead and a 4-1 >> > balun with good results. >> > >> > Please give a little more info about your antenna and requirements. >> > It seems strange that you can't find an atu for your needs. >> > >> > 73 and I'll try to help. >> > >> > >> > __________ NOD32 1.1570 (20060531) Information __________ >> > >> > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >> > http://www.eset.com >> > >> > > > Louis Kim Kline > A.R.S. K2LKK > Home e-mail: [log in to unmask] > Work e-mail: [log in to unmask] > Work Telephone: (585) 697-5753 > >