"Reg Edwards" wrote
Single wire feed. I was a student (living off of my wife) and used
what I
could get my hands on.
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A true radio amateur!

Just get a random, bent wire into the air. A single-wire feed helps a
lot. With a modest ground and a simple tuner you have an efficient,
multi-band, go-anywhere antenna system you can be proud of.

Anybody who boasts about his G5RV has never tried anything else.

Right.....you should hear the bands open up when you launch a kite
antenna. There's nothing like a few hundred feet of random long wire up
in the air. ;-)
WARNING: No one should ever do such a thing for what should be very
obvious safety reasons.

I'm a big fan of cubical quads, but you need allot of room for them.
I'd take one over a yagi any day. I built a two element quad for 10
meters using bamboo fishing poles for the spreaders. The boom was made
from cedar. It lasted about three years before a flying tree limb took
it out. I also made an 8 element quad for 2 meters using 1/2" poplar
dowel rod spreaders and a wooden boom as well. Man was that thing hard
to tune. Weird things happen after the fifth element is added for some
reason. Might explain why most have only 4 elements. ;-) Seriously,
it really kicked ass but the tornadic storm took it out too. I'll not
be making another with that many elements, too fussy but extremely
narrow beam w/incredible back side rejection.

"Anthony Fremont" wrote in news:FZBwf.39022$9e.30720
@tornado.texas.rr.com:


"Reg Edwards" wrote
Single wire feed. I was a student (living off of my wife) and used
what I
could get my hands on.
=======================================

A true radio amateur!

Just get a random, bent wire into the air. A single-wire feed helps a
lot. With a modest ground and a simple tuner you have an efficient,
multi-band, go-anywhere antenna system you can be proud of.

Anybody who boasts about his G5RV has never tried anything else.

Right.....you should hear the bands open up when you launch a kite
antenna. There's nothing like a few hundred feet of random long wire
up
in the air. ;-)
WARNING: No one should ever do such a thing for what should be very
obvious safety reasons.

I'm a big fan of cubical quads, but you need allot of room for them.

I swear OH8OS used to MAKE his own band openings or 15 back in 65 when I
used to work him from VE8ML. He had a huge quad, 15 elements, I think,
pointed right in my direction.


--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

"Dave Oldridge" wrote in message

I swear OH8OS used to MAKE his own band openings or 15 back in 65 when
I
used to work him from VE8ML. He had a huge quad, 15 elements, I
think,
pointed right in my direction.

You just about can. Even with just two elements on 10, I worked several
contacts from Houston that couldn't hear anyone else in the US. I
really loved that antenna.