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What kind of coils or traps do you have on that dipole. I've got a g5rv
here in Kansas and would like to find something that would work on 160.
73s
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Steve Forst wrote:
> Tom,
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> What you are trying to do turns the antenna into something like a top
> loaded Marconi. The entire feedline becomes the radiating element and the
> 102 foot wire becomes the capacity hat. Some guys do it, but why bother?
> It needs a *very* good ground at the transmitter end. More than just a
> wire running to a ground rod. You can make it load up, but how successful
> will you be?
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> In roughly the same space you can run a shortened dipole that will resonant
> on 160 and give you good results without trying to reinvent the wheel.
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> I tried the g5rv thing a few years ago with modest results in QSO's and
> fantastic results in RFI due to poor ground. The loaded dipole I'm now
> running is 124 ft. total with 106 across the top and 18 hanging down from
> one end. With 100 watts and just puttering around in some 160 contests,
> I've nailed 47 states and 25 countries. I'm glad I chucked the G5RV.
>
> 73 Steve KW3A
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