[Boatanchors] Valiant on 160, Antenna Opinion

[Bob Wilder]

I have a suggestion that may help.  Replace the 135ft of wire with 450 Ohm 
ladder line.  Short each end and open the center on one side and feed with 
450 Ohm ladder line and cut the other side in the center and leave the 
other side open.  Feed the ladder line feed to a 4:1 balun to your 
tuner.  What you will end up with will be  linear loaded double extended 
Zepp for 160-10 meters that will show gain.  I have used them for years and 
they work better that a dipole.



At 11:10 AM 8/12/2005 -0400, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:

>On 8/12/05, Freeberg, Scott (STP) <Scott.Freeberg at guidant.com> wrote:
><snip>
> > To that end, I'm thinking about adding as much wire to the antenna that 
> I can to get closer to 160.  Its currently an 80 meter dipole around 
> 135', fed with 450 ohm ladder line.  I use it as an allband antenna with 
> the Johnson KW Matchbox.   I might be able to add 30' to 40' to each end, 
> resulting in more like 200'.  While I realize it isn't 260', 200' is alot 
> closer to 260' than 135' is.  Then maybe the Heathkit SA2060A will have a 
> better chance of tuning.
> >
> > Does this sound reasonable, anyone doing this, or am I terribly confused?
>
>Scott -
>
>How about using the space for a long, end fed wire? You're already
>using open wire feeders, so it should give you a good stretch of wire
>in the air.
>
>de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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