[MRCA] Antenna(s)

[W2HX]

Hi friends,


Its been about 10 years since I had a proper horizontal antenna at the QTH since my old OCF dipole went deaf and then broke. In response I put up a vertical which I think has some real DX potential once I can figure out the source of some serious QRM.


Today I had some tree guys trimming a bunch of things for us and while they were here, I had them put a pulley and some Mastrant-M 860 lbs. paracord up in a tree about 80 feet.


Unfortunately the arrangement of trees on the property is really not conducive to wire antennas. I have two trees that go from one corner of the property to the other corner diagonally, about 195 feet apart.  I had an OCF dipole between them and it ran above the house. This worked out pretty well because the feedline dropped right down over the house near the chimney.


I was thinking of running the same configuration, but this time with a messenger line between the trees to keep all of the force off the radiating elements themselves. In this case, one side would be up 80 feet (pulley mentioned above) and the other about 35'.  This arrangement is still in the running.


Others have suggested that I put the center point of an antenna in this 80' tree. I am more seriously considering this arrangement since I think getting the center point as high as possible is beneficial but the antenna elements would not 180 degrees but maybe 90 degrees. I have had some suggestions that this might not be so bad and that it might be best to have the two ends slope down. I will have to see about that.


Well anyway with a good pulley 80 feet up at least I will have some options. More planning to come!


73 Eugene W2HX




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