[Elecraft] 160m suggestion.

Fri Feb 14 08:07:00 2003

Old news.  I have a 135' dipole up at 50' here.  It is fed with about 110' of 450 ohm
ladder=line twinlead.  I am using about six radials fanned out over about 90 degrees
under the sloping feeder and the antenna flat-top.  The feeder being shorted at the
transmitter antenna coupling unit ( an "L" section in this case.)
I have successfully worked ZL and VK with it a few times this season on CW with
50 watts of power.  So the "Marconi" configuration of this dipole does work!

I also made around 323 contacts in the last CQ WW 160 meter contest just past.
Just about 99% of the stations I   called gave me immediate answers, so I must
presume the antenna configuration IS working.
Good luck with your "Marconi"!

73,
Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Willcocks" <[email protected]>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:51 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] 160m suggestion.

| Hi all,
|          I guess there are quite a few readers on this reflector who haven't
| got the space available for a decent 160m antenna (I am one of them), but I
| have been able to get my 80m dipole to tune on 160m by making it into a
| "sorta" Marconi setup.
| To achieve this, I have made a fitting that shorts the inner and outer of
| the coax lead-in and present the result as a single wire into the ATU .
| Provide a good ground and the K2 will tune up on 160m to a 1:1 swr (or it
| does here) I should imagine a similar setup using open wire feeders would
| obtain similar results?
| Possibly "old hat" to a lot of readers, but also possibly a "new" idea for
| some, and could help a K2 owner to have to look on the "Top Band".  Not as
| good as a 160m dipole by any means, but makes a "useable " antenna.....
| Cheers.....Ron ZL1TW
| K2/100  #2204
|
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