I live on a fairly small lot and use a Hy-Gain AV640 for 40 through 10 and
currently have no antenna for 80 or 160.
My backyard is about 90 x 70 but has some ill-placed and ill-shaped trees
for either wire antennas or a tower.
So I am thinking of another vertical, but this one ¼ wave with a radial
field. I would like to get 80 and 160 out of it. I don?t mind having to
guy it, or even having to pour a concrete base for it.
My first thought is to use aluminum irrigation pipe as others have, and have
about 60 to 65 feet of it, an insulator and inductor and high voltage relay,
and then perhaps 15 to 20 of much smaller aluminum tubing, with a sloping
capacity hat of four wires going partially down the four top guys. I don?t
know if I could get away from the relay, and put up a trap instead but am
wary of using a true trap (coil & capacitor) rather than just a large, high
Q coil.
As you can see this idea is full of possibilities and mechanical drawbacks,
so the question is, is there that much to gain from the center-loaded design
with capacity hat, versus a switchable tuning network at the base of the
antenna?
Your input is appreciated. I am hoping to make this a summer project and
reward myself with 80 and 160 in the winter.
73,
Art
Art Trampler, KØRO
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