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randymac wrote:

John Smith I Wrote:
Was bored, had a roll of #16 wire and made it. Seems to work well
through my 9:1 balun into the S350DL ... used a pie plate as the
capacitive hat.

http://www.hard-core-dx.com/nordicdx.../bromstik.html


I made one of these antennas about a year ago, and while it worked, the
50 foot random wire I have up now works much better.

They are both none resonant antennas and the 50 foot random wire has a
larger capture area so that would be the expected result.

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Telamon
Ventura, California