No Bruce, this was my reference antenna.

Dan/W4NTI

"WA8ULX" wrote in message
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Dan/W4NTI wrote:
Get yourself a empty can of coffee. Place a light bulb in it. Hook
the
coax to it. Remember the shield goes to the negative of the bulb.

Seal the can with lead solder.
Bury 15 feet underground.

Enjoy.

Dan I think you forgot to mention it has 20DB GAIN.

Jimmie wrote:
Make the antenna all one piece 1/2wavelength long and feed with a gamma
match. You can Google plenty of info on this.

Thank you. gamma match. That did the trick. As a native german speaking
I lack some vocabulary and the information in english is better.
But i
bother how i can go from balanced to unbalanced. I use rg58 wire and i
do not want to radio interfere my neighbours nor let my radio go up in
smoke.

So i guess i need a balun. The impedance at the connector from antenna
to wire should already be more or less 50 ohms, but it's balanced.

What would make an easy though effective 1:1 balun?

"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message
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Get yourself a empty can of coffee. Place a light bulb in it. Hook the
coax to it. Remember the shield goes to the negative of the bulb.

Seal the can with lead solder.
Bury 15 feet underground.


Is this called a squirrel antenna, bury it and forgot where you placed it?