[AMRadio] Valiant carrier

[Bernie Doran]

yep, and if you run the multiband verticle that " does not need radials" you 
can run 10 kw. never heard of a mud duck either!   It does seem strange that 
hams spend $$$$$ then feed it to a poor antenna litle better than a dummy 
load.     Run a resonant  coax or twin lead dipole for each band, may have 
to tune for height effect on Z, a verticle over a propper radial field, at 
least 60 1/4 wave radials, a center fed wire  1/2 wave at the lowest band 
with open wire feeders to a real antenna matching device with parallel tuned 
circuits, like the Johnson match box,  Makes a great all band antenna, or a 
Yagi.  there are a few more but those are the main antennas and simply the 
standards.     Do not use the small coax unless it is a short run and on low 
bands, even RG8 gets really poor on upper bands with any significient length

I run a 260 foot wire 40 feet high, open wire to Johnson KW match box and 
1/4 wave 80 meter verticle surrounded by a 1/2 wave  spaced 4 el verticle 
phased array for 40 ( not a 4 square) There is nine miles of wire under the 
verticles.  600 plus feet away fed with 3/4 inch hardline, 1 db loss.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Sieb" <esieb at sympatico.ca>
To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
<amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Valiant carrier


> Snobbery has nothing to do with it.  Efficient operation is what I strive 
> for and try to
> impart that idea to others.
> CB term?  It is.  (A lot of those ops already know that term, trust me.) I 
> guess I  should
> have used the term "p*ss-weaker"?
>
> After 40 years as  a ham, I can't tell you how many times I've come across 
> either  a new
> ham or someone licensed only a few years, running a G5RV on 80. You know, 
> the
> "dipole-in-a-bag-complete-with coax-with-connectors"?   They invariably 
> have to rely on
> excellent propagation to get out.  And I can't tell you how many hams I 
> have helped
> improve their sigs on 80, by insisting they try a dipole, even a  short 
> dipole, fed with
> 450 ohm line, instead of their G5RV dummy load.
>
> Ed, VA3ES
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> John Tate wrote:
> You guys are a bit snobby. Just saying. Lids and mud-ducks... what the 
> heck is a mud-duck?
> Sounds like a CB term.
>
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