[Antennas] Gain with wire ...

[doc]

I have used a 300 foot doublet fed with commercial slotted 450 line.

Very nice on 160, 80/75 and 40, gain everywhere else.  You'd
have to run one of the calculator programs to figure the numbers.
height also makes a big difference below 20m.

You might also look into end-fed very long wire antennas.  There
was an article about one someone in Hawaii (I think) that came
out a number of years ago.  400+ feet I think and he calculated
some serious gain on 20, 15 & 10.

73, doc kd4e

> Thanks to all that replied, but that thread sure died in a hurry. Thanks
> again for the input.
>
> 73
>
>
> > In attempting to work VP6DI I started playing around with wire
antennas(I
> > have no tower) and I got good response from a "3/4 wave Short Tilted Vee
> > Beam" I got 4+ S units better receive on VP6DI and this  brought on a
> spark
> > of curiosity.
> >
> > What other SIMPLE wire atenna configurations bring decent gain on 10,
15,
> > and 20 meters?? Not necessarily multiband, but that would be a plus in
> > limited space....
> >
> > Tim KD5CKP