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help me out with my wire ant farm idea please?
i just bought 10 acres of flat land here in alabama . i need a huge
horizontal ant for 160.to 11 meter band .is the rhombic a good choice.i don't wont a huge tower . i need a good budget wire ant.thats all thank you very much 73s |
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73, Dave, N3HE "Free radio" wrote in message ... i just bought 10 acres of flat land here in alabama . i need a huge horizontal ant for 160.to 11 meter band .is the rhombic a good choice.i don't wont a huge tower . i need a good budget wire ant.thats all thank you very much 73s |
"Free radio" wrote in message ... i just bought 10 acres of flat land here in alabama . i need a huge horizontal ant for 160.to 11 meter band .is the rhombic a good choice.i don't wont a huge tower . i need a good budget wire ant.thats all thank you very much 73s I am not certain that a Rhombic for 160 would fit in your 10 acres. In part it depends on the configuration of the lot. 10 acres in a square configuration would lead a side of about 650 feet. A wavelength is 160 x 3.1 or 496 feet. So the side of the lot is less than 1.5 wavelengths on 160 -- not very long for a rhombic. Do you have really tall supports for the Rhombic? You clearly have enough space for a rhombic on 20 meters and perhaps 40 meters. Do you really want to have most of your power going in only two directions? This would assume that you could selectively feed one end or the other of the antenna while terminating the other. Perhaps one or more 160 meter center fed wire antennas arranged so that you could choose the one with lobes in the correct direction for your contact on the your choice of bands would work out better. Regards, Ed, N5EI ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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i just bought 10 acres of flat land here in alabama . i need a huge horizontal ant for 160.to 11 meter band .is the rhombic a good choice. A rhombic is highly directional and fixed in place. What do you want your antenna to do for you? -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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Free radio,
No, a rhombic wouldn't be a good choice for an 'all band' antenna. I think a better choice would be several antennas optimized for particular bands, as high as you can get them. But, since you rule out towers, and I've no idea what trees you may have on the property, the multi-antenna thingy may not be a good choice either. Lots of help, huh? 'Doc PS - The large horizontal loop idea isn't a bad one... |
ok thanks for the tip i will go with the full wave loop ant dont really
need 160 meters . |
....Pssst. make it a full wave on 160 meters, that way
you get it all. 'Doc |
pssst ok doctor phil about 30 ft high
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