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Backyard antenna considered...
I have a wood fence around my back yard. Across the back stretch is 79 feet.
The fence extends 76 feet from there along each side of my house which is 50 feet wide, leaving around 14 feet on each side of the house. The back of the house to the fence is 37 feet . The eve of my two story house is, if I remember right, about 23 feet above the ground. I want to erect a random wire antenna of insulated 12 gauge wire from one corner of the fence in the back, lead it up to the middle of the house to an insulator, then back down to the other corner of the fence, where the feedpoint will connect at the end. The back of my house faces due North. The antenna will be held about 8' feet off the ground at the fence corners by schedule 40 PVC pipe. I want to juse the feeline system as described by John Doty in this article: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/nordicdx...eed/feed1.html I have a Radio Shack DX-398 equivalent of the Sangean ATS-909. I was thinking the two ground rods will be set in a hole 1 foot in diameter filled with a Bentonite slurry. I was wondering if the random wire folded into such an inverted V facing due North will have good reception qualities. The previous residence I erected an inverted L random wire antenna and received excellent results, but seemed very directional. I am hoping the inverted V shape will help diversify the direction of reception somewhat at this house. What do you all think? |
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