[Elecraft] A Good Antenna Length?

[Nr4c]

Oops,

Jim  
I use two antennas here at my place. 
For 80 and 160 I use a 170 foot long wire running from just over my feed line entry to a point 40 ft below a branch on a 75 ft pine, up to to the branch and over to another tree ( kinda like a "Z"). This is fed to an "L Match" made from a section of coil and a variable capacitor for 80 and I add an additional fixed cap for 160. 

For higher bands I have a 40-20-10 meter "fan" dipole that my K-Line (& my KX3-Line") will tune on 40-20-17-15-12-10-6 meters. Many will say "it can't work" but please don't tell my radios!  The Elecraft tuners can tune anything!  
I once worked a friend who'd just moved and was using a "GutterTron" ant in the CQWW. Yeah, the gutter and downspout fed against a ground-rod. 

Another friend loaded up the liner in his chimney, called a GutterTron. 

Have fun. Try anything. It just might work. You can make a lot of antennas from a $45.00 spool of THHN and plastic "cutting" board from Walmart. About 2/3rds the price of a G5RV. 

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...nr4c. bill


> On Jul 4, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Jim GM <jim.gmforum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What antenna lengths are you using on 160M with your KX3 or  KXPA100
> internal tuner? What is best for 160-6 meters? I like making my own
> antennas with wire.
> 
> I usually have to give up one band or another cause it just would not tune
> up on a certain band.
> 
> I have tried to stay with in these guide lines.
> 
> -- 
> Jim K9TF
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