[TAC] FW: Snake success?

[tjrachwal at comcast.net]

You 40M guys might want to take note of this.  Kurt and I will have one for both 160M and 80M.  We'll be using speaker twinlead and a 4:1 balun.  Just something to think about.
K8AQM

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From: "Kurt T. Meyers" <pasteur at bex.net> 
To: "K8AQM" <K8AQM at arrl.net> 
Subject: Snake success? 
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:05:48 +0000 

Ted,
    Now that I can switch back and forth easily between my snake and my 40-M antenna, I am discovering that the snake is significantly effective on European signals on that band. (Also today on 30 M, the snake helped me copy a mobile from Arkansas). On 40 M, the snake is more than 2 wavelengths long. My guess is that's the key. I just don't have enough real estate to go out 2 wavelengths on 80 M. Two wavelengths would be 351' on 80 M and 712' on 160 M, assuming velocity factor of .66. I wish I had known about the snake when I lived on Dana St. I could have sneaked one out into the park and run it along that row of trees heading back toward the railroad tracks. No one would have known a thing during winter time.
    This evening I logged OK3BJJ on 75 SSB.

73, Kurt