[CoARES-D10] Random length wire antennas

[Pat Lambert - W0IPL]

The situation at my house is such that it would be much easier to run a 
random length wire antenna for HF than to run full sized dipoles. So I 
went out and got a tuner made to handle that. In the instructions it 
tells you to AVOID having the wire be a 1/2 wave length on any band you 
want to operate on.

In typical fashion, I was looking for one length that would allow me to 
operate on all HF bands (above 75M and possibly work on 75) so I dug out 
the calculator. The results of those (seemingly thousands of) button 
pushes are chronicled at http://home.earthlink.net/~w0ipl/random-l.htm

I'll update it if there is anything you might need to know - you know, 
something like the theory doesn't work the we would hope. ;-)

C Ya
  Pat

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