beverage style antennas yeh.
less than 5FT off the ground and as long as you can make them.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: Really Big Transmitters


> Russ Kiehne writes:
>> I was wondering, what are you using for an antenna on longwave?
> 
> A very, very poor antenna for now. It is the three guy
> wires on my tower electrically tied together. When we get some
> milder weather, I plan to change that to an inverted V type
> configuration. I have heavy insulators designed to be load
> bearing on each end of each guy wire and each wire is about 55
> feet long so it still will not be very efficient on long wave.
> Some of the really good long wave antennas are large coils or
> loops of wire on a big frame which I should probably try some
> time to see if I hear anything more than I do now.
> 
> Short of hitting the jack pot and buying a huge ranch
> out in the country, all my low-frequency antennas will be
> extreme compromises.
> 
> By the way, I hear that long-wave antennas work well
> when run just above the ground. Low-frequency RF does not
> propagate via the same mechanisms that HF does.