Hi David
When I go camping, I have a wire antenna that I use with my setup. It is
about 100 feet of wire fed in the center with ladder line.
Sometimes I have a camp spot that doesn't allow me to put that much wire
up so what I do is take a couple of 2-liter pop bottles and just wrap
the excess wire around them until it will fits the spot. With the tuner
and ladder line, it works pretty well and will get me on all bands.
You might just try putting a wire as long as possible up and feed it
with ladder line with a couple of coils wound with about 30 feet of wire
or so in each half to make up for the shorter length. That would
probably work better than the 33' end fed wire. Never modeled it but
just put it up and made contacts with it.
It is not fancy, but works for me when camping :-) 73
Tom W7WHY
On 11/6/2014 5:26 AM, David Gallatin via TowerTalk wrote:
Hello group and once again I thank everyone who helped with my previous post
about the concrete.
My set up: Mosley TA 33 JR tri-bander that will be at about 31 feet. The
question: I've been debating ways to get at 40-80 meters. I have a very small
lot so cant run the usual wire suspects and was thinking about making a mag
loop.
But I've also thought about an end fed Chameleon or 33' Ultimax at about 28
feet as I do have room to run one of those horizontal to a tree. These are
multi-banded antennas but I've never given considered using them on 20,15,10 of
course.
But then a thought occurred to me. Might the take off angles of the wire
antenna be different enough as to be beneficial for transmitting on those bands
and hitting different spots of the globe that the Mosley is skipping over?
73,
David, AA9G
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