[Elecraft] wire antennas

[Don]

Have you tried using the antenna on 160 through a tuner just as it is? 
Chances are you can match it even on 160M and if you do you will not have to 
worry about the ground losses you would have feeding it against ground 
(unless using lots of radials).

Don K7FJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Wilburn" <dave.wilburn at verizon.net>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] wire antennas


>I am very much enjoying reading the discussions on wire antennas.  I have 
>something I have been trying to figure out how to do for some time, and 
>thought this might be a good place to ask.
>
> I have an 80m loop, up about 60 or 70 feet.  Currently it is fed with 300 
> ohm line.  All I could find at the time, as what I had left in 450 ohm 
> line (after I helped my elderly neighbor get his antenna back up, and gave 
> him some of the ladder line) was not long enough. Additionally, I went to 
> the local hamfest this weekend and could not find a single vendor selling 
> ladder line, but I digress.  I have approximately 290 feet of wire in the 
> air in a horizontal, triangular configuration, fed with (soon to be) 
> ladder line, a balun (1:1) and then coax to the shack.  Is it possible to 
> switch this (seems possible from what I have read) to a 160m antenna by 
> taking one side to ground at the balun and feeding the other side?  If 
> this is possible, is there a way to do this remotely?
>
> David Wilburn
> dave.wilburn at verizon.net
> K4DGW
>
>
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