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John Doe wrote:
2] I live in a Antenna restricted community, and I have a 40ft pine tree in my back yard. Now you are getting somewhere. Run a 40 foot vertical wire up the tree and use some of the upper limbs for a top hat made out of small wires. Feed it at the base of the tree with an autotuner. A 40 foot vertical will radiate ten times as much RF on 160m as will a 10 foot vertical. The addition of top hat wires can double that figure. You may get such an antenna to be 10% efficient. As far as radials go - They are out of the question. At the autotuner, you need a counterpoise of some kind unless you live in a salt water swamp. If you can bury coax, can you also bury a 100 foot counterpoise? Note that the ground causes the counterpoise to have a low velocity factor so 1/4WL of wire is not necessary. -- 73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com |
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