Of course. I don't have a balun. The choke is on this side of the tuner.
Radials are a problem here on the Rock Ranch where there is just enough
soil to grow weeds, and rock outcroppings are everywhere. If they weren't
a problem, I'd have some, a bunch in fact. Putting in a ground rod was
about like carving the face of Mt. Rushmore! Some poor recent arrival from
far south of here spent two and a half days working like a rented mule!
In this HOA infested area, I'm always plotting and scheming to improve my
antenna situation, and with only 5 watts you need to conserve every little
db you can. I'm too old and decrepit to put in a tower, even if I could
put in a proper base which is near impossible, not only because of the
HOA. It's ironic how, when you are young and foolish and relatively broke,
you save and scrimp and eat beans to get a tower and huge antenna, and now,
when money is not the limitation, age and health is! Phooey!
73 de W6OGC Jim Allen
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
wrote:
> On Mon,8/18/2014 10:17 AM, Jim Allen wrote:
>
>> It is this uncertainty that keeps us trying things experts say won't work.
>> Sometimes they don't, but other times, they work OK.
>>
>
> As N6BT has said, "everything works" -- the difference is how WELL it
> works. To prove his point, he worked all continents on a light bulb. :)
> I've worked at least 130 counties QRP with good antennas, most confirmed by
> LOTW. 1.5 kW works BETTER. :)
>
> Your antenna work work best (you'll be louder) on 160M fed as a long wire
> against a counterpoise. Just be sure to take the "balun" out of the system
> when you do it. It also might work better on 80M fed that way. My 80M
> dipole in Chicago did, and it was 40 ft high on one end and 30 ft high on
> the other.
>
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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