At 2:32 PM -0500 6/23/03, Kenny wrote:
>I have been looking for all the information on the web I can about a good
>wire antenna....
It's a jungle, or a minefield, out there. A whole lotta snake oil
being peddled. OTOH, you'll find a lot of good reading at
<http://www.cebik.com/>
>If I mounted a dipole I could get about 200ft max "100 ft each
>side" in my yard.
That's plenty of room.
>However it wouldn't be that high, maybe 30 35 ft and 20
>ft on the ends.
That's not too bad. Plenty of hams (including me) have made DXCC
with wire antennas that high. Mine is a doublet (a wire fed at its
center with 600-ohm ladder line), overall length = 30 meters, of
which the middle 20 meters is horizontal and 5 meters hangs
vertically at each end. If you're interested I'll email you plots of
its radiation pattern for all bands 80 through 10 meters.
>I though about buying a sgc smartuner or ldg remote tuner
>and just putting up as much wire as I could and use it that way or ? So
>any links.comments, or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Balanced antennas with balanced feedlines are best for HF, IMO.
Since those tuners are unbalanced, you'll also need a balun. I'd
recommend a 4:1 current balun. Putting up as much wire as you can is
OK up to a point. I wouldn't make a straight doublet longer than
1.25 wavelengths, though, to avoid putting deep nulls in its pattern.
However, the trick of dropping about 5 meters vertically at each end
(as I have) can fill in the nulls.
73 de Chuck, W1HIS
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