[Elecraft] wire antennas

[David Wilburn]

Yes, and it doesn't work.  This is the second 80m horizontal loop I have 
had, and they just do not like going low.

David Wilburn
dave.wilburn at verizon.net



Don wrote:
> 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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