[Premium-Rx] Broad Bandwidth HF RX Antenna

[Gary Mitchelson - N3JPU]

L.B.Cebik has a couple of good articles on this antenna:

http://www.cebik.com/t2fd.html

http://www.cebik.com/wbfd.html

Gary Mitchelson
USAF MARS and SHARES station AFA1PU
Maryland/DC USAF MARS SMD AFF1MD
USAF MARS Region 1 MTS AFF1M
SHARES ALE Callsign AFA1PUMARS


-----Original Message-----
From: premium-rx-bounces at ml.skirrow.org
[mailto:premium-rx-bounces at ml.skirrow.org] On Behalf Of Mark Donaldson
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:22
To: premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org
Subject: [Premium-Rx] Broad Bandwidth HF RX Antenna


I am looking for ideas on a wide bandwidth HF RX antenna for use with my
premium receivers. Presently I have a 120ft dipole fed with openwire line
about 80ft in elevation being fed with an antenna tuner. The present antenna
is fine for my ham radio transmitting requirements but is not adequate for
band cruising, I don't want to have to be readjusting the antenna tuner all
the time. I don't have a very big lot but do border on a large amount of
conservation land. Rhombics, discones and other huge antennas are out of the
question but Beverage and othe long wire antennas are possible. I have been
also looking into the T2FD antenna and terminated transmission line antennas
as well. I would like to find an antenna that presents a reasonably
nonreactive 50 Ohm load from 2 - 30 MHz, is reasonably efficient and has a
broad antenna pattern, using a balun to do impedance transformations is not
a problem for me either. I would be interested to hear your ideas and what
some of you are using. 
 
73s
 
Mark  WA1QHQ