Good morning,
The balun has two binding posts with wing nuts to attach and tighten the
ends of the two wires. Just attach a wire to each binding post (your balun,
or coupler/tuner, may have banana plugs or some other method to use). Get
the other end (the end of the long conductor) up in the air, straight up or
sloped, etc. No ground radials or counterpoise needed. I've worked Alaska
from Florida with just 5 watts, at the bottom of the solar cycle with this
antenna at the 2008 field day sight at Honeymoon Island, Florida.

Ron Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Gerry Leary
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 7:44 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: No counterpoise antenna

Do you connect the short wire to ground?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:04 PM
Subject: No counterpoise antenna


> Okay, nobody has actually asked for this but I've used it with great 
> success
> and want to share it with those who need/want an easy, very portable
> multi-band antenna. A caveat is that you'll need a 4-1 balun and an 
> antenna
> coupler, or an antenna coupler which has an incorporated 4-1 balun. I use 
> a
> little qrp 4-1 balun and the coupler built into my IC-703+ with great
> results.
>
> Below is the text I copied from an email sent by Pete Millis to the HFPack
> list some years ago. I've used the 20-6 meter version of this antenna
> supported by my 20-foot crappie pole zipped tied to one of those little
> 4-foot plastic "push-in" fence posts you can get at hardware stores for 
> less
> than 10 dollars. I'm going to try the 40-10 meter version now using the
> crappie pole mounted on the tripod.
>
> Excerpt Begin
>
> It is really simple - for 20-6m version, take 25ft (7.8m) of speaker
> wire (zip cord), separate wires down to the halfway point of 12.5ft
> (3.9m) and snip off one wire. Feed at the rig end of the twin wire
> section via a balun and tuner.
>
> This version can easily be support on a fishing pole, dangled out of a
> window, strung up to a tree or whatever.
>
> The 40-10 version is just twice the length - i.e. 50ft wire, separated
> down to the 25ft point and one wire snipped off. Not so easy to mount
> vertically, but good as a dangler from a window, a horizontal, an "up
> and out", a sloper or whatever is convenient.
>
> Excerpt End
>
> 73
>
> Ron Miller
> N6MSA
> Clearwater, Fl. U.S.A.
> SKYPE arjay1
>
>