[Elecraft] 80 mtr FD antenna ideas?

Indy Indy" <[email protected]
Thu Jun 19 09:30:01 2003


Collective brain-trust!

Planning to take our K2's out for field day again this year, but have =
yet to come up with a satisfying idea for an 80 meter antenna.  Our =
circumstance:

We are on a ridge the has a steep drop off to the NE, our primary =
direction, but a broad top and shallow drop to the west where CA is not =
far away.  The ridge is peppered with ponderosa pine trees mostly 30 to =
40 feet tall.  The drop-off has these trees, too.

I modeled on EZNEC a full sized G5RV.  It does not seem to like being =
deployed at 35 feet, delivers a very low impedance (3 ohms!) until =
nearly 50 feet high.  Course it is a poor ground, so maybe would do =
better than one would think.

Clever ideas???

72,

Fred
KT5X
K2 # 700

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