[Lowfer] medfer 1702 in Maryland

Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:35:19 -0600

Incredible Mitch. So this means no loading coil either huh??? How in the
heck did you get it to work so nice??? Well at least remember what you have
now and then if the tuning doesn't do anything real for it, you can go back
to the current setup. Still doesn't make sense how it works so well. Dang...
And all that talk about 120 radials needed to make a vertical work well on
160 meters. Crazy...

Mike>WE0H

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Mitch Powell
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] medfer 1702 in Maryland

> Gee Mitch, at that rate you might make it over the pond. Can you describe
in
> full detail your vertical and ground plane??? It looks like that might be
a
> hot antenna for 160 meters.

Pretty simple and fast actually. I just wanted to get it on the air, before
it started raining after I got home from work.
About 30 feet of vertical wire - held up by a flat-top of three wires ( out
at 120 degrees) going to the trees in the backyard. The flat-top is only
about 30 feet wide.

I have no matching, no tuned circuit - nothing.... the coax goes to the
vertical wire and a 3 ft copper pipe in the ground.
Tomorrow I will build a tank circuit, and link couple it to the coax, and
tune for maximum smoke.

I am quite surprised at the signal level.... on the scope I am getting
exactly 8 volt p.p. into a 50 ohm resistive load.... so about 160 mW.

More tests to follow - but then again,,,, if it ain't broke, maybe I won't
fix it !

73

Mitch

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