On 10/15/2012 2:59 PM, Boomer wrote:

There is a guy here my age who has experimented with antennas much more
than have I. He nudged me into changing my 450 plastic dialectrict
balanced line to my loop to an open wire. I did not expect much
difference. I was shocked at the improvement. He is our resident expert
in the "North Woods". This is the Michigan upper peninsula, Northern
Wisconsin, and Minnesota. He is not an expert on antenna theory or math,
but damn sure knows what works best. I wish I had changed my feed line
three years ago when he told me to do so.

Michael

Live in the Minneapolis metro and just got back from the lower peninsula
last Monday. Was camping next to the lake in West Olive. Used my usual
portable HF antenna, a 20m end fed. I also have a 40/20 end fed, but
didn't figure it was worth the trouble for this trip since I was going
to be busy with other things at the site and I didn't know the campground.

You probably know the rule here - if you put it up at 20 below it will
never come down.

tom
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