Brian Hill wrote:
"dxAce" wrote in message
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Brian Hill wrote:


"Don Forsling" wrote in message
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Yes, I'm iold, tired, lazy and forgetful. That said, can someone

remind

me

of the formula for calculating the length of a full-wave antenna wire

if

the

frequency is known (think whip and a frequency of 160.890 mhz).

Your ant would be 2.9088196904717508856983031885139. So about 2 15/16 or

so

inches. I wouldn't recamend a dipole config. LOL!!!

Are you sure about that length? A dipole at 144 MHz is much, much larger

than

that, so something at 160 MHz or so isn't going to be that much smaller.

dxAce
Michigan
USA




I don't know what the logistics of VHF and above would be but the math says
it's so. I'll have to refer to my ARRL handbook. I'm a HF guy and the math
works for that spectrum.

B.H.


At 160 MHz the halfwave length would be 2.9 feet.