"Reg Edwards" wrote in news:dpuo55$isc$1
@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com:

Single wire feed. I was a student (living off of my wife) and used
what I
could get my hands on.
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A true radio amateur!

Just get a random, bent wire into the air. A single-wire feed helps a
lot. With a modest ground and a simple tuner you have an efficient,
multi-band, go-anywhere antenna system you can be proud of.

Anybody who boasts about his G5RV has never tried anything else.

Well, I'll put the system I started to design last night up against most
other 80m antennas. But it won't be cheap to build. Needs 8 165-foot
towers, and a bunch of phase delay networks and some power dividers. :-P

But the gain over ordinary ground works to between 9.5 and 10.5 dbi
depending on the direction favoured by the phasing networks.


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Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667