[NLRS] WTB: 6-meter Squalo, Loop or big wheel Antenna

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

The Moxon isn't hard to build and isn't very directive. W0ZQ worked up a 
shrunken Moxon for 6m roving a few years ago. Presented at Auroro and 
CSVHF conference in 2014. You can download both presentations on line. 
Go to www.nlrs.com, click on Aurora then on 2014 presentations. It will 
take signing in to the place they are stored. Or google lead me to
https://pdfsecret.com/queue/conference-presentations_59f7447bd64ab20a7517189f_pdf?queue_id=-1 
where
all the 2014 CSVHF presentations are in one big .pdf file and Jon's 
presentation is in full color, unlike the proceedings.

For HF and 6m these days I use a 24 foot long coaxial center fed dipole 
between a couple tripods on the house roof and with that wire running 
east to west, I work Maritime Canada, Maine, New England, Carolinas, 
Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Calfornia, 
Colorado, Utah, Western Washington, and Alberta on 6 in contests. I use 
a coaxial antenna tuner at the rig. On 6 its a double extended zepp and 
has several lobes. Before I moved here I had an 80 meter double extended 
zepp that was 326 feet long (#10 copperweld) at varying heights 30 to 50 
feet above the ground with tuned feeder. It was broad side to St. Louis 
where my dad lived and I worked him once a week on 75 meters for over 30 
years. On 6m it had many lobes and notches between them but as E clouds 
moved I made lots of contacts on CW and SSB. I had my own design of an 
HF tuner, plus a 15 and 10 meter tuner, a separate 6m tuner, and a 2 
meter tuner. I built a 432 tuner but never applied RF. I had a couple 
feedlines over the decades, the best one for handling wind was 450 ohm 1 
inch spaced 18 gauge copperweld with plastic spacer bars every few 
inches. It handled wind and ice better than others I tried like TV flat 
300 ohm twinlead.

My 6m tuner for the coax I'm using now I started with a hamfest MFJ-971 
and took out the tuner coll and switch. Probably the variable capacitors 
too, I made a Pi-net tuner with a couple 50 pf variable capacitors and a 
fixed coil probably #15 or 16 enameled wire about 1/2" diameter and 3/4" 
long close spaced. It tunes nicely and even with a length of RG6 between 
it and the antenna it works over the 6m CW and SSB band once its tuned 
about 50.140. The 971's SWR meter agrees with the FT-857D's SWR 
indicator even though the 971 wasn't designed for 6m.

73, Jerry, K0CQ


On 7/13/2018 12:35 AM, Estey Carl wrote:
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> I am looking for a 6-meter horizontal omni-direction 6-meter antenna with the intention of running 5-watts on FT-8. If you have something available let me know - along with price and location.
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> 73
> Carl WA0CQG
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