You have set yourself up for quite a challenge! Limiting yourself to a length of "6 to 10 feet" is going to be a problem. At ten feet you'll be more-or-less resonant on 10 and 12 meters, and will be able to use the tuner for 15m and (maybe) 20.
Even much longer antennas don't work all bands, although some use coils to improve coverage.
In short, a shorty antenna will not work well on all bands. If you have room, you'd be better off with separate verticals for each of the bands you want to use.
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Originally Posted by Tom[_8_]
I want to build a home made omni for use on tower.
I want to feed it with coax and have lot of wire, copper pipe, tubing, basic
parts.
I have a pretty good tuner and will use the tuner to tune. Can anyone make a
recommendation as to how to make a not so complicated omni directional
antenna that practical?
I am thinking something about 6 to 10 foot in height only, I can make gnd
planes, but something I can tune to get most bands and simply omni function.
I want to get all bands and I run barefoot and just want to get on the air
with simplest, least complicated, easiest to build omni. I don't need a
electronics lesson in engineering design, just a website or two explaining
the simple build of the magical omni fed with coax that is the best I can
get for my situation.
Thanks
73s
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September 24th 12, 07:17 PM
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