[QCWA] Old school

[Mike Sturm]

I couldn't agree more!  About 3 years ago, I saw the movie, "We Were
Soldiers" for the first time and one scene featured that exact antenna. 
That was the inspiration I needed to re-activate my HF station.  I looked
up the details in my old ARRL Antenna Book from the late 60's and some
weeks later I put up a 25 foot pole, strung up the antenna and was blown
away by the performance.

Mine is 96 feet long but isn't straight - it's in both a horizontal and
inverted "V" configuration and has given me great signal reports from all
over the globe.  Best part is that it is my first 80M antenna ever and has
allowed me to join my local QCWA nets where I made a lot of good friends.

Sure, I'd love to have some "Big Iron" in the back yard, but I never had
the desire to foot the bill for the construction and maintenance expenses.
 This is my forever antenna... well until I see another movie that has a
better design :)

73
Mike, KA2E

When I moved to Texas a few years back, one of my plans
was "I have room for an antenna in a neighborhood with
NO CC&Rs or HOAs."

What to do?

After a bit of work with the tape measure, and consulting
a 1946 ARRL handbook, I placed a 40' non-self supporting
tower I brought with me next to the house. A nice 102'
doublet with 450 ohm window line, a 9:1 balun and an
LDG Z100 Pro II antenna tuner.

This works amazing well on 80-10 meters and with the
addition of a loading coil also tunes up on 160 meters.

After 49 years of absolutely lousy HF antennas, I.m quite
pleased with the results.

Jeff-1.0
wa6fwi

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