[Elecraft] My Experiences with EH antennas on 20 meters

[Jerry Felts]

Ya know, I've played with a couple of EH Antennas and they have both work
great for me. Thats running qrp, and with it sitting on the shelf over my
radio. I really don't care what other people say or think about them! I just
know mine work just fine.

Jerry - NR5A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Kuehl" <ac7a@earthlink.net>
To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] My Experiences with EH antennas on 20 meters


> Hello Charles,
>
> The E/H antenna has been a subject of controversy within the antenna
> community. Although antennas are my primary interest in amateur radio and
> I've published a few articles on them, I am not qualified to pass
judgement
> regarding the E/H antenna's operation or performance. With that said,
there
> are some learned and experienced hams whom have a good deal more
experience
> and antenna knowledge than myself. The following links may prove helpful
to
> anyone contemplating acquiring or building their own E/H antenna.
Generally,
> it appears that the analysis of the E/H antenna, and the practical
> experiences with it, indicate that its gain is down somewhere around 10 to
> 20 dB from common reference antennas. Please see the following articles
at:
>
> http://www.w8ji.com/e-h_antenna.htm
>
> http://www.qsl.net/iz7ath/web/02_brew/18_eh/index.htm
>
> I am truly surprised that you have achieved such high levels of
performance
> with your E/H antenna.
>
> Best Regards, Thomas - AC7A (Tucson)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Greene" <W1CG@QSL.net>
> To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 7:52 PM
> Subject: [Elecraft] My Experiences with EH antennas on 20 meters
>
>
> > Ron and All,
> >
> > The EH antenna really works, well.  It's efficiency, as an antenna, is
on
> > the order of 95%, as compared to about 75% for the full size 20 meter
> > vertical with elevated radials I build last summer, and few percent for
a
> > short fat dipole the same size but just loaded with a loading coil
because
> > of the high losses in the loading coil.  On 20 meters, its beam width is
> on
> > the order of a few degrees, concentrated near the horizontal.  As it
needs
> > no ground, its ground losses are very low. It doesn't need a return
ground
> > path that includes the lossy earth ground.  >
> > Others have had the same or better results.
> >
>
> > GL on yours.  You can even buy an excellent kit at www.eh-antennas.com
> >
> >
> > 73, Chas, W1CG
> > K2 #462
> >
>
>
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