If the lot is really 90 by 150 feet, depending on where the housse is within
the lot, it sounds like a good situation. As has already been said, if you
have some tall trees, make use of them to support one or more wire antennas.
A local ham in the Potomac Valley Radio Club, who works almost all CW, has
an 80-meter dipole at 80 feet height, fed with open-wire line from a
link-coupled manual antenna tuner in the shack, and he works the world on
160 through 10 meters. On the higher bands the antenna has many lobes and
nulls in its pattern, and on 160 he feeds both sides of the antenna against
shack ground.
My lot is 50 to 58 feet wide and 100 feet deep. If I were starting now, I
couldn't do what I did because of zoning laws that state that my antenna
structure must fall entirely on my own property. But in 1982 W3GRF planned
out the 60-foot tower I use and helped me get it through the county
permitting process. It is Roan 25G and is guyed at the 30- and 60-foot
levels. The ends of the guy wires come down at steep angles to the tops of
three irrigation pipes 8 feet tall which are in their own concrete bases.
Of course, the tower is also in concrete. This is enough to hold the KT34XA
6-element triband Yagi I use (22-foot turning radius). Due to wind loading
I don't think it would support one of the log-periodic antennas mentioned a
few days ago. I have 80 and 40 dipoles strung through the trees, going past
the tower at about the 50-foot level; actually the dipoles need to be
rehung. I have worked some DX on 17, 12 and 6 meters using the beam,
although the SWR is ather high and there is no directional pattern to speak
of. This antenna farm has withstood a lot of weather, and I can still walk
to a Metro station and a big shopping center. I don't think that I could
come up with such a good situation if I was starting out today.
If any of you are in apartments and want to get on HF, try to find a way to
get an antenna outside. WB9GUT checks into our nets from Minneapolis with a
small vertical mounted indoors, but his signal is pretty weak, and I don't
want to think about RF exposure in running 100 watts in that situation. Put
up a wire and start listening, so you can get some idea of what bands you
really want to use and why. For most of us life is a compromise, but it is
surprising what sort of compromises might actually work.
Net on 14258 in 25 minutes!
73,
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Tomblin
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 12:33 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: antenna question
hi, i'm thinking about getting a ts590 and I was wondering what kind of
antenna I
should get. I would like it for as many bands as possible. We have a
small backyard
about 50 yards wide and 30 deep. any help would be appreicated. thanks
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73,
Darren Tomblin (KC9JJJ)
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