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ICOM AH-4 into Hy-Gain 64 foot Aluminum Mast
On Apr 16, 6:16*pm, Jim Lux wrote:
But just feeding the end of a 1/2 wave wire sticking in the air is asking for difficulties. *Your coax is nominally 50 ohm sort of impedance, and you'd be end feeding a dipole at a high Z point (a thousand ohms, maybe). Feeding it would be fairly easy.. But.. Just because it's a half wave will not mean that there will be low ground losses if ground mounted. You would see less ground loss than a ground mount quarter wave, but it could still be an issue. Note that most broadcasters who run half waves, also use a set of half wave radials. I'd probably rather use 32 ft masts supporting self supporting 32 ft radiators, and use a few sloping radials as radials, and also to double as guy wires. That will work fairly well with as few as three radials. More to be optimum, but this is field day.. :/ |
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