Hello Henry
The fact that the shack was live means that the R.F. wasn't being
radiated well.
The old saying is
as much wire as high as possible and higher
I Guess that the length of the wire is not important in this case,
rather the height.
What about the steam effect?
David
In message <[log in to unmask]>, Henry Brugsch
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>How about more on this inverted v at180 feet?
>How much twinlead?
>How if half-size.
>But, here's one.
>On the Severn Valley Railway a few weekendds ago,I wasn't directly involved,
>they set up a station which consisted of an antenna a long wire matched with
>a tuner.
>This wire was 97 feet long.
>It ran up the side of an out building, across to another building, and
>terminated at a fence.
>The thing worked amazingly well on 40 meters.
>I had a ten station pile up both fromdomestic,and European stations when I
>tried it on the Sunday afternoon.
>The results were astounding. I live a quarter of a mile away, and can't get
>anything like that kind of result with anything I have run.
>Right now, all my hf antennas are down, and there is nothing but a long wire
>running up and down the side of the house.
>But, I am going to try this 97 foot special,and see what it does.
>One thing, though when we ran it on the railway, the r.F. in the shack was
>incredible. You could have cooked hambergers on the key.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 4:34 AM
>Subject: Re: antenna construction
>
>
>> The vhf quad is a fascinating idea. Depends on your resources as far as
>> HF. The g5rv is a fine antenna, but it won't work below 3.5mhz unless you
>> double it to 202 feet for the inverted vee. Do you need an antenna that
>> won't need a tuner?
>> I feed 180feet of inverted Vee with 85ft of 450 Ohm twin lead and think it
>> is the best HF antenna I have ever used for work between 1.8 and 30mhz
>> Howard
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David
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