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Ant. Considerations for the FT-857D
If you live on a typical suburban lot and were contemplating purchasing a
Yaesu FT-857D or perhaps the new Icom R-7000, what would you buy for an antenna(s)? Is the QRN bad enough that you would stay way from a vertically polarized antenna for HF? Should I take an interest in 160 meters or is it a relatively specialized band that is not worth the antenna considerations initially? Been away from Ham radio for over 20 years but know enough to think out my antenna strategy before buying the rig. Thanks for any comments. Cordially, west AF4GC |
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Ant. Considerations for the FT-857D
"west" wrote in message . .. If you live on a typical suburban lot and were contemplating purchasing a Yaesu FT-857D or perhaps the new Icom R-7000, what would you buy for an antenna(s)? Is the QRN bad enough that you would stay way from a vertically polarized antenna for HF? Should I take an interest in 160 meters or is it a relatively specialized band that is not worth the antenna considerations initially? Been away from Ham radio for over 20 years but know enough to think out my antenna strategy before buying the rig. Thanks for any comments. Could you give a price range and how much real estate you have ? I would like a 180 ft tower with seperate beams on it for each band but it is much out of my price range. Also hard to put up a 160 meter dipole on a 1/2 acre lot. Tell us what kind of antennas you are thinking of . |
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Ant. Considerations for the FT-857D
"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message nk.net... "west" wrote in message . .. If you live on a typical suburban lot and were contemplating purchasing a Yaesu FT-857D or perhaps the new Icom R-7000, what would you buy for an antenna(s)? Is the QRN bad enough that you would stay way from a vertically polarized antenna for HF? Should I take an interest in 160 meters or is it a relatively specialized band that is not worth the antenna considerations initially? Been away from Ham radio for over 20 years but know enough to think out my antenna strategy before buying the rig. Thanks for any comments. Could you give a price range and how much real estate you have ? I would like a 180 ft tower with seperate beams on it for each band but it is much out of my price range. Also hard to put up a 160 meter dipole on a 1/2 acre lot. Tell us what kind of antennas you are thinking of . A suburban lot is a modest sized lot. Ideally I would have only 2 ant. 1 for HF & one for 2m/220/440. although I see that there are all in ones available but that would make the HF part, vertically polarized. I can forget 160m. I know from days of old the QRN was almost intolerable at times with a vertical. Thanks, Ralph for the post. BTW: I am only interested in omni-directional at this time. west |
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Ant. Considerations for the FT-857D
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:51:31 GMT, "west"
wrote: A suburban lot is a modest sized lot. Ideally I would have only 2 ant. 1 for HF & one for 2m/220/440. although I see that there are all in ones available but that would make the HF part, vertically polarized. I can forget 160m. I know from days of old the QRN was almost intolerable at times with a vertical. Thanks, Ralph for the post. BTW: I am only interested in omni-directional at this time. west Depending on the size of your lot, a dipole for 80 or 40 is pretty easy. I you make it an inverted V, that will give it a more omnidirecitonal pattern, if that is what you want. bob k5qwg |
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Ant. Considerations for the FT-857D
"west" wrote in message ... lot. Tell us what kind of antennas you are thinking of . A suburban lot is a modest sized lot. Ideally I would have only 2 ant. 1 for HF & one for 2m/220/440. although I see that there are all in ones available but that would make the HF part, vertically polarized. I can forget 160m. I know from days of old the QRN was almost intolerable at times with a vertical. Thanks, Ralph for the post. BTW: I am only interested in omni-directional at this time. west If you can put up a dipole, you may want to try a dipole, either trapped, or fed with open wire. An off center fed antenna is not bad either. You may have trouble getting enough wire in the ground for a vertical to work very well. Putting down 20 to 100 ground wires is more trouble than I care for. At low heights the dipoles, especially if inverted V types have a very broad pattern, almost omni-directiona. One thing about the dipoles is you can buy a bunch of wire at the local store for a small price. If you don't like it, you have not spent the $ 200-300 for the verticals. For vhf FM work most any of the dual band verticals seem to be ok. I have not looked at any that cover the 220 band also. It may be hard to find a single antenna that will do 144/220/440 . I usually work ssb on the vhf bands and do very little on the repeaters so that has not been much of an issue with me. SSB usually requires a horizontal antenna as that is what most are using and you will take a big (around 20 db) hit going from one to the other. |
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