[Lowfer] Photo of my antenna

[jrusgrove at comcast.net]

So you're feeding the bottom of the RG59 shield against ground and all of the horizontal top wires 
are connected to the RG59 shield?

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy - KU4XR via Lowfer" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
To: "1750 Meter lowfer list" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>; "600 meter group" <600mrg at w7ekb.com>
Cc: "Andy - KU4XR" <ku4xr at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2017 1:48 PM
Subject: [Lowfer] Photo of my antenna


> Hi all:
>
> Just for the fun of showing this.. Sometimes it's interesting to see what the other guy is using 
> .. My antenna is
> certainly a off brand of anything named .. hi hi !! - I think I will call it my " cobbled together 
> sorta Inverted - L " ..
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49203948/Antenna%20at%20KU4XR.jpg
>
> It is what used to be my 160 meter OCF dipole .. the 160 foot top load was the back leg of the OCF 
> .. I added
> the extra 100 foot top load to make the " fan " section top loading .. For reasons I don't know, 
> this configuration
> has resulted in 2 S-units less noise, and better weak signal reception .. My 160 meter 
> Transmissions are
> better, and reception below 500 KHz is considerably improved .. The top loading is going across my 
> yard..
> No radials that really matter in the antenna field - a few short ones at my ground rod next to the 
> window ..
>
> 73 all:
>
> Andy - KU4XR
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