[Lowfer] TAG/RY update
Dale Parfitt
[email protected]
Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:04:15 -0400
Eric Smith wrote:
> LowFERs,
>
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, John Andrews wrote:
>
> > ...no sign of UWL.
>
> Thanks, guys, for trying. I'm adding a few short radials tonight. By the
> end of next weekend, I hope to have a new, higher (more in the clear),
> better antenna in place.
>
Hi Eric,
A technique we used many years back on the RC freq of 27.145 was an end fed
1/2 wave- requiring no radials. The end Z of a 14 gauge wire at 14MHz is about
4000 Ohms. So we just attached it directly to the top of the oscillator's tank
coil- simple and very effective.
Dale W4OP