Need help... End-fed, long wire or ????
Yep, amen to that! LOL...
woody
"Denny" wrote in message
ups.com...
Yes, the history of the autotuners is fascinating...
The discussion of integral half waves, parallel resonance impedences,
ground impedences, etc., is meat and potatos for antenna freaks like
me...
BTW, in the older ARRL handbooks is a table of guy wire lengths (for
towers) that avoid resonances in the ham bands... Those lengths would
make an excellent guide for the length of a random wire antenna... It
might also be in the new editions, but I haven't looked at one in
recent years.. Anyway, that table will give you a good starting
point...
B U T , what I want you to do is to simply either cobble up an L
match, or pick up a tuner (any tuner, automatic or not), run some wire
any length through those trees, and get on the air!
If the tuner has problems with any particular band, change the length
of the wire by 4 to 12 feet until it tunes OK...
Once you have a working antenna you can spend time and energy gilding
the lily with just the 'perfect' length and configuration...
Don't waste time over analyzing - pick a tuner, throw up some wire
and ground radials, and operate...
A local ham who lives in a trailor park is closing in on 300 countries
confirmed and his only antenna for all this is a single multiband
vertical, 21 feet tall, disguised as a flag pole...
Just do it...
cheers ... denny
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