He's right for a half wave. The guy asked for a full wave though. Just
double it.

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Brian Hill wrote:

"Don Forsling" wrote in message
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Yes, I'm iold, tired, lazy and forgetful. That said, can someone
remind
me
of the formula for calculating the length of a full-wave antenna wire
if
the
frequency is known (think whip and a frequency of 160.890 mhz).

Your ant would be 2.9088196904717508856983031885139. So about 2 15/16 or
so
inches. I wouldn't recamend a dipole config. LOL!!!

Are you sure about that length? A dipole at 144 MHz is much, much larger
than
that, so something at 160 MHz or so isn't going to be that much smaller.

dxAce
Michigan
USA