I have 2 antennas that I an very happy with. These are by far the best
preforming antennas I have ever owned.

The first is a 17 METER antenna unlike anything you have ever seen or
heard of before.

It is a 17 METER half wave dipole that is constructed in the shape of
the letter "C". I first saw this design in the former East German
sector about a year after the Berlin wall came down. I happened upon a
deserted East German military base that had this huge antenna farm. I
thought about it for a number of years and then began experimenting
with it...and came up with a real winned.

As I said, it is a half wave dipole that is constructed in the shape of
the letter "C". The vertical part of the letter "C" is 1/4 wave length
attached to a tree with couple screw-in ceramic standoff insulators I
got at Home Depot. The upper and lower horizontal parts of the letter
"C" and 1/8 wave length. You feed it in the middle of the vertical
part of the letter "C" with 50 ohm coax. It is a perfect 1 to 1 match.

Now, this is the IMPORTANT PART and the secret of it's success. YOU
MOUNT THE LOWER HORIZONTAL SECTION OF THE LETTER "C" SO THAT IT IS 24
INCHES OFF THE GROUND. This is extremely important because it give is
a very low angle or radiation.

ALSO IMPORTANT. Construct this antenna with the largest gauge of
stranded wire you can find. Go to the local hardware store and buy the
thickest stranded wire you can get. Or, you can also use 1/8 or 3/8
copper tubing. You want to have as much surface area as possible


OK, the SECOND GREAT ANTENNA that I have is a Windom. Now, don't
laugh, but this is the 10 thru 40 meter Windom THAT A GUY ON EBAY SELLS
FOR $20. I have the thing 35 feet in the air. Feed it directly with
50 ohm coax.

The guy down the street has a G5RV (about $75 or $85) at 50 feet and a
Force 12 vertical dipole (about $300) and it blows both of them away.
I work stuff that he can't even hear. We both have similar equipment.
And being in the same neighborhood, our locations are similar.

That Windom is the best $20 investment I ever made.

Bill Hansen