[Elecraft] End fed antenna - length and SWR

[Rick Dettinger]

I scaled the 44 feet up 4 times to 176 feet to get a reasonable match on 160 meters with my poor ground system.
Its 55 feet high with the rest sloping somewhat down to about 25 feet.
It is tuned at the base with a remote coupler.  There is 140 feet of coax berried from the coupler to my 3rd floor (loft) shack. 
I am happy with the performance.  
Before I built the remote antenna, I had an end fed wire with no coax tuned in the shack.  It was fed with a ground wire hanging down the house from the peak.  It worked OK on transmit, but was noisy on receive.  Getting the feed away from my house really knocked the noise down.

73,
Rick Dettinger  K7MW




On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Ariel Jacala wrote:

> My version using the same matchbox is 44 feet long and tunes well 40 - 6 meters and a piece of cake for the KX3.     It is loud on 30m
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> Ariel NY4G
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