[Elecraft] Any benefits to a Long "Long Wire"

Wed Aug 7 14:59:00 2002

Ron,
Had some discussion on other lists, keep in mind telephone poles
regardless of where they are belong to the phone company.  The climbers
will cut the 'extra' stuff off if they have to climb.  Just a
thought.......  [got from a climber this information]

If you have a length of wire 1/4 wave up to about 1.5 that is referred
to as a random not a long wire.  The ARRL hand book goes into to this
quite a bit.  I personally use by the definition random wires, but have
had great luck.  Just wish I had the property some of these fellows do,
would love to do a loooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg  one!

73 oo
Chuck
Http://68.43.100.7:81/aa8vs

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron D'Eau Claire
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:06 PM
To: 'Charlie Hicks'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Any benefits to a Long "Long Wire"

I suspect I warm the clouds quite a bit since mine is only at 25' or so
- but it sure works well. In the future I'd like to see about putting up
some telephone poles.  Placed right I would also be able to build a
rhombic on the inside of the loop - or perhaps a multi-directional,
switchable V.  It's amazing what you can do with a length of wire.  And
it doesn't have to be real expensive.

73,  Charlie

At 25 feet you should work DX on 14 MHz and up. I do with a doublet at
that height. And a "cloud warmer" can be a great antenna for
communications at up to 1,000 miles on the lower bands!

Ron AC7AC
K2 # 1289

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