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I have this problem - my garden is not too large (about 15 X 7
meters). I wonder, between the diamond WD 330S - is about 10m, and BB6W - 6.4m. Or maybe some vertical? Can you advise something? Boris |
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On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:33:31 -0800 (PST), Boris
wrote: I have this problem - my garden is not too large (about 15 X 7 meters). I wonder, between the diamond WD 330S - is about 10m, and BB6W - 6.4m. Or maybe some vertical? Can you advise something? Hi Boris, What do you want to do? 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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On Jan 15, 7:08*pm, Richard Clark wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:33:31 -0800 (PST), Boris wrote: I have this problem - my garden is not too large (about 15 X 7 meters). I wonder, between the diamond WD 330S - is about 10m, and BB6W - 6.4m. Or maybe some vertical? Can you advise something? Hi Boris, What do you want to do? 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC Well, yes. Of course, I mean work on short-wave, and it would be good to have the 80-meter, which is probably possible with these antennas. Boris |
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On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:52:36 -0800 (PST), Boris
wrote: Of course, I mean work on short-wave, and it would be good to have the 80-meter, which is probably possible with these antennas. Hi Boris, You can listen to SW and 80M with almost any kind of antenna and a cheap tuner. Save your money. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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On Jan 16, 6:00*pm, Richard Clark wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:52:36 -0800 (PST), Boris wrote: Of course, I mean work on short-wave, and it would be good to have the 80-meter, which is probably possible with these antennas. Hi Boris, You can listen to SW and 80M with almost any kind of antenna and a cheap tuner. Save your money. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC Well, here I agree with you but what about the transmitting? |
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On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:53:14 -0800 (PST), Boris
wrote: Well, here I agree with you but what about the transmitting? Hi Boris, You don't need to spend $300 on an antenna to transmit on 80M when $10 will easily do this. Are you licensed to transmit? Do you have a call sign? The problem here is that you came to the group with a specific, expensive solution (or two actually) and a rather unspecific problem. If you are looking for validation for these expensive antennas: yeah, sure, buy them both and work in stereo. If you don't have plans outside of 80M and listening to SW (you haven't provided anything more specific than this, and even then I am guessing); then a short, custom tuned 80M antenna is easily achieved for chump change - and it will work quite fine for SW. If you have more grandiose plans (undisclosed so far), then sweep the table clean and start over again. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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On Jan 16, 7:49*pm, Richard Clark wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:53:14 -0800 (PST), Boris wrote: Well, here I agree with you but what about the transmitting? Hi Boris, You don't need to spend $300 on an antenna to transmit on 80M when $10 will easily do this. *Are you licensed to transmit? *Do you have a call sign? The problem here is that you came to the group with a specific, expensive solution (or two actually) and a rather unspecific problem. If you are looking for validation for these expensive antennas: yeah, sure, buy them both and work in stereo. If you don't have plans outside of 80M and listening to SW (you haven't provided anything more specific than this, and even then I am guessing); then a short, custom tuned 80M antenna is easily achieved for chump change - and it will work quite fine for SW. If you have more grandiose plans (undisclosed so far), then sweep the table clean and start over again. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC Ok, so from the beginning. I have: a license, radio, and at that moment just listening on a piece of wire .... I am thinking about those two antennas due to some small garden (only home and a piece of garden flat - no trees), and partly because my experience shows that sometimes it is better to spend some money right away to something decent, than to buy some bull****. But that's what I wrote, it's not gospel - just ask for advice from more experienced colleagues. I am open to everything, and if it is cheaper than what I ask is just better. I must admit that I do not have much experience in this field, and I do not know how it looks in practice, but I would like to work on all short-wave. If this is rubbish, please tell me which ranges should be considered Boris |
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On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:32:25 -0800 (PST), Boris
wrote: If this is rubbish, please tell me which ranges should be considered Hi Boris, Not knowing what bands you want to operate, how much loss you are willing to accept, how much money vs. how much of your own effort you are willing to spend; this all makes recommendations kind of tough. If you are only working 80M, then a simple antenna will do - but I don't have enough information to say skip the expensive solutions. However, I would say spend your money on a tuner and put up a dipole that fits - or a vertical that fits. Don't worry about anything else until you have something to fix, you could spend a lot of time worrying without getting anything done. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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...I have this problem - my garden is not too large (about 15 X 7 meters). I wonder, between the diamond WD 330S - is about 10m, and BB6W - 6.4m. Or maybe some vertical? Can you advise something? Boris Boris, I made the T2FD antenna myself (look-alike of the WD 330S) Very quiet antenna and very easy and cheap to make (1 balun 1:1 and 1 resistor, some pvc-pipes and wire) I believe you're Dutch (or Belgian), so if you give me your callsign or e-mail-adress I'll sent you some info. But remember, a T2FD is not the most effective antenna, acts more as a huge dummy-load ... 73's ON3xXx |
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