Hey folks. I've been a ham for 37 years, but I've spent my entire ham "career" on 80-10m (with the exception of 7 countries worked on 160m about ten years ago). For the most part, the same obstacle h
Okay... great responses all. Here's what I think I'm gonna do... I'll go vertical with an inverted L. I'm thinking to be resonant around 1.825MHz, I'll need about 128.2' of wire. I'll go up about 70'
Pardon me for asking a dumb question... but how do you guys switch between the beverage antenna and the inverted-L... given that your XCVR has only a single antenna port for both TX/RX? Mike, WA9PIE
With everyone's advice, I thought I'd send a quick note to thank everyone and let you know what I ended up doing. I put a 160m inverted-L together. I have 130' piece of 10-gauge wire up. Probably 80'
When I sent out a recent email about the 160m inverted-L I was finishing with four ¼ wavelength (130?) radials, I got a few responses back indicating that I should cut them in half and double them. S
I'm with you, Mark. Previous to this weekend, I had made exactly 69 contacts on 160m in the past 37 years. I had worked 7 DXCC countries. Having confirmed 100 on every other band under 30 MHz, I figu
On the point of being zero-beat with the station you're calling... you almost need to run CW Skimmer for that here. I called a station - exactly zero beat... and a station just below me was answering
Hey guys. I saw a few items in a Google search where guys had converted their full-size G5RV into a T antenna on 160m. It had something to do with adding the obligatory counterpoise and shorting the
Thanks for all the replies. I've also found this article by AD1B in CQ from 1995 to be helpful. http://techdoc.kvindesland.no/radio/antennas/20061010171110285.pdf Thus far, the (102') G5RV is up at a