Tom,

With your lot only around 40 feet square, you wont be able to roll out 
enough of the yo-yo antenna to get on 40 or 75 meters.

Howard #3

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: Yoyo antennas?


>    Thanks for this good info, John.
>
> I fully understand that the yo-yo antennas are not meant to serve in
> permanent installations.  I'm just looking for alternatives if I can't get
> my Turbo-tuner replaced, or find another screw-driver tuning device.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 9:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Yoyo antennas?
>
>
>>I have a couple yoyo dipoles, I've run them on vacations in the past and a
>> couple special event stations. The wire's a bit thin to leave up full 
>> time
>> which is why I didn't put it up here, but for what I have used them for,
>> and
>> I even, that 2 months I lived with my in-laws ran one inside the house 
>> and
>> I
>> can't complain about them, they're not bad. the  hardest thing is finding
>> the tuning points and marking them, I marked them with electrical tape 
>> and
>> had a friend find them originally. They're not all that expensive, I
>> forget
>> the price but I think I paid $30 for the one that goes from 2 meters to
>> 40,
>> and I got another one setup to add wire to for 75 meters and they seem to
>> work well. I usually hung them with fishing line, I have one of those
>> antennas and a spool of fishing line in my go kit.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 5:04 AM
>> Subject: Yoyo antennas?
>>
>>
>>> Hello, everyone.
>>>
>>> Thanks to those who have responded so far to my quiry about an alternate
>>> antenna for my HF set-up at the RV.
>>>
>>> One possibility I've always been curious about is something called the
>>> Yoyo
>>> Antenna.
>>>
>>> Here's a little blurb on it from an earlier Handiham e-letter.
>>>
>>> Has anyone ever used one of these things?
>>>
>>> I can't find current prices from the URL listed, so if anyone has info 
>>> on
>>> that score, please send it along.
>>>
>>> Thanks, and 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>>
>>> Maybe this would be a good spot to mention that Bill Lauterbach, WA8MEA,
>>> of
>>>
>>> DWM Communications, has kindly donated three of his famous YO-YO-TENNA
>>>
>>> antennas to the Handiham System, and we plan to give them a workout at
>>> the
>>>
>>> upcoming Minnesota Radio Camp in late August. The Yo-Yo's look like the
>>> toy
>>>
>>> of the same name, but they are really serious portable antenna systems
>>> that
>>>
>>> are perfect for quick deployment anywhere you want to do some HF
>>> operation.
>>>
>>> Like a yo-yo, the antenna is wound in a circular plastic case. The
>>>
>>> single-wire version has one round storage container, and the dipole
>>> systems
>>>
>>> have one of these "yo-yo's" for each leg of the antenna. You set the
>>> dipole
>>>
>>> up by fixing the center insulator to a center support, such as the
>>>
>>> Worldradio portable telescoping fiberglass mast (I picked one of those 
>>> up
>>> at
>>>
>>> Dayton), and then running the legs of the dipole out to end supports in
>>>
>>> inverted-vee configuration. Feed with 50 Ohm coax, and you are good to
>>> go!
>>>
>>> When you are ready to pack the system back up, you wind the wire back
>>> into
>>>
>>> the plastic yo-yo cases by simply turning a hand crank on each case.
>>> Check
>>>
>>> Bill's website out at:
>>>
>>> http://www.qth.com/dwm/.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In case you are curious about the Worldradio telescoping mast, I paid 
>>> $20
>>>
>>> for it, a dollar a foot, and you can find it (model SD-20 mast) at:
>>>
>>> http://www.wr6wr.com/.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Pat, WA0TDA Handiham Manager
>>