[MRCA] Antenna(s)

[Steven Gajkowski]

Do you have a tree in each corner, 3 corners, put up a loop.   May help with
some of the noise you get too! 

 

Steve

 

From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of W2HX
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2019 11:25 AM
To: mrca at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [MRCA] Antenna(s)

 

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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