[Elecraft] A Good Antenna Length?

[riese-k3djc at juno.com]

Hi Guy

same thing here I was going to use it on 160 but really like 75
makes a good DX antenna and when the band is open I have
no problems breaking pileups,,, up 40 Ft and out ? Horz
works OK on all other harmonic related bands ,,, did run some tests with 
a station 30 miles from me. I used to use a tuner at the base but I find
the
HB antenna tuner in the shack works well ,,,So what the heck ,,, Use a
series of ferrites on the
coax feed and run the feed about 50 Ft through the basement to the shack
not a QRP antenna ? use a Heath amp drive it wit a K3
bottom line
put up some wire and get on the air

Bob K3DJC


On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 16:08:19 -0400 Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy at gmail.com>
writes:
> An end-fed half wave inverted L (EFHWL) done properly works very 
> well. It
> needs to be tuned at the base of the wire against ground.
> 
> An EFHWL for 80m is an excellent antenna that has no nulls and has
> vertically polarized low angle radiation equal to a decent 1/4 wave
> vertical. The horizontal wire fills in the general pattern to a 
> hemisphere
> with a broad and mild null in the direction of the horizontal pull. 
> It is
> an ideal all-distance contest antenna, because there are no holes 
> in
> coverage in any direction or elevation.