[Elecraft] how to optimize end-fed?

[Fred Jensen]

Let me see if I understand the question:  You're looking for a simple 
algorithm to tell you how to "best" deploy a wire of indeterminate 
length in a configuration yet to be specified using a transformer of 
indefinite impedance ratio on any of a number of unnamed bands.

This is reminiscent of one of the five volumes in Douglas Adams' 
trilogy, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy."  The people build a very 
powerful computer and then asked it, "What is the meaning of the 
Universe?"  The computer begins to compute, as is the wont of computers, 
and worked on the problem for a very long time.  Finally, it announced 
that it had determined the answer.  By this time, there was no one in 
the Universe that remembered the original question.  When asked for the 
answer, the computer replied, "Forty Two."

Possibly "forty two" would work for you as a rule of thumb? :-))

73,

Fred K6DGW
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On 9/29/2016 11:24 PM, Holger Schurig wrote:
> Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> writes:
>
>> How long is the wire?
>> What band?
>
> Who knowns?  I'm not asking for a *specific* optimization, I'm asking
> for a general rule of thumb.
>
> I'm not talking about a permanent installation, I'm talking about going
> to some field, or hill. I don't know the band in advance, I don't know
> the propagation conditions. And I have several lengths of wire with me,
> I can adjust the wire length. And given the circumstances of the
> location, even the layout of my wire (only on fiber glass post, between
> tree and fiber glass post, etc) will change (e.g. sloper, vertical,
> etc). Even the high will be undefined and/or changeable.