[Elecraft] Compromise/Limited Space/Make My Day Antenna Advice

[Francis Belliveau]

On: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 5:48 PM
"Thom R LaCosta" <lacosta at bcpl.net>
wrote:

> I could use a suggestion or two....I live in a very congested area....my
house
> is 11 foot wide and 25 feet long...with a yard that is 10 feel deep....I
have a
> 10 by 10 deck on the second floor.
> ...
For a quick and dirty simple solution you could probably fit a 20 meter
sloping inverted-V.

Run coax feedline up the center of the rear of the house, as high as
possible, to the center of a dipole cut for 20 Meters.  From there run the
ends to a pole on each corner of the lot.

The formula:  SQRT((10*10) + (12.5*12.5)) yields 12.89 feet which is only a
few inches off from a 20 meter quarter wave (13.12 feet).  The slope should
easily eat that up.

That will get you on the air quickly in an afternoon while you work on
better solutions that have been suggested.

Fran