[Hallicrafters] Antenna question

[Ron Kolarik]

Sounds like a Slinky antenna and the loops were to connect the individual
Slinkys. Were the coils close spaced windings?

Ron
K0IDT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Waldo Magnuson" <magnuson at mac.com>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 11:17 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Antenna question


> Hi,  yesterday at the Spokane, WA Hamfest an antenna was strung up outside with a 
> co-ax leading inside.  The question is on the antenna characteristics.  It was a 
> dipole (maybe 50 feet end to end) but the wire was like a large coil.  The coil was 
> about 6 inches in diameter and a loop about every 6 inches.  It was supported by a 
> nylon line so could have been stretched out maybe to 100 feet or so.  Is the coil 
> loops just for putting up the antenna between different distance objects or is there 
> some electrical effect for the loops? Thanks.
> 73, Skip W7WGM
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