Also the EH antenna have to follow the laws of nature. The laws of nature is
inthing You can disobey, and get a few Years of prison. It is simply impossible!

So, the EH antenna does not work according the way the inventors claim.
Of course, it radiates. But:

The main radiating element of a "good" EH antenna system is the feeder (koax)
shield. Not the antenna itself.

So, if You have a short feeder, the antenna will radiate very poor (however, it
of
course radiates). And the EH antenna is NOT CHEAP!.

There are some other types og antennas:

1) The Isotron antenna, which is a Q-tank, thus radiates poorly as well,
but the inventors to my knowledge does not make any un-scientifical claims.
You can work some stations with it, it might be a "salvation" if You are
real eager to get on 160, and does not want to do a massive work Yorself.

2) The magloop, an interesting but complex way to make a small antenna.
It WORKS, efficiency is not good, but amazing results can be achieved!

3) DCTL, in fact a magloop, but is NOT recommended for 160.

4) A dipole made of 2 commercially bought mobile whips including coils:
Works, efficiency is not good.

5) A mobile whip.
It is small, and a built in small coil with low Q. Not my kind of tea.

6) Ultra-shortened ground plane aka monopole. A capacitive antenna, which can
be used, if You have good nerves (HIGH VOLTAGE!) and a variometer. Look
what the european 136kHz (LW) hams are achieving! I would recomment this type!
(of COURSE low efficiency, but one can use hi-Q coils, which outperforms
other set-ups)

No type is GOOD for 160m if You have resticted space...

Tyas_MT wrote:

There's something called an EH-antenna... despite many claims it is not a
wonder antenna, but it does get you on the air... it's not a substitute for
a dipole or beam though (I saw a 160m 2 element quad.. that was a monster,
but I digress).

www.eh-antenna.com

Somewhere I saw someone's test of one at some low band... 80 or 160m I
forget which... It was pretty good sized, but tiny compared to say, a
dipole. 2-3' in diameter, looked to be about 10-15' tall. no real good
'scale' photos.

I have seen a couple of 'how to build' articles on the web, but don't have
them handy I'm afraid.

Unfortunately nothing is going to work really well... given your space
limitations. I'd go for as much of a vertical as I could, and run ground
radials in the garden, or maybe a ehem 'long' wire run around two sides of
the property maybe?

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"M3" *** wrote in message news:4081ab53.0@entanet...
Hi,

Any designs for a small antenna to work on 160M? My garden is approx 40ft
x
17ft.

Post links here.

Thanks.