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I needed an indoor HF antenna recently and had a 40 ft roll of Radio
Shack twinlead. I cut down the middle about 16.5 feet, hung one end at one side of the room and the other end at the other side of the room and fed it into the balanced line input on my tuner. It tunes easily. I have no ground set up, so I ran another 16.5 foot wire from the ground port. Making contacts is a bit of a struggle, from my QTH in Michigan I've worked Nevada and Arizona on PSK and during the DX contest today in limited operation near sunset I worked Barbados and the Dominican Republic with about 50W (probably a bit of a high level of RF radiation, I know). The question I have is what the downside of this is. I have seen many websites that show various antennas fed with twinlead, but I've never seen my approach (the twinlead used for both the antenna and feedline). Since I got this roll of twinlead on clearance from Radio Shack for 38 cents, this is a cheap antenna indeed. 73, Paul, N8HM |
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