Hi Jack,
Welcome to the club! My suggestion from many years of experience is to
put up a 135 foot dipole as high as possible. Feed it with ladderline
and a tuner with a 4:1 balun. It will work all bands and give you great
results. You can buy it prepackaged for about $40 It is made by a
company called Van Gordon and is sold by most radio distributors (Amateur
Electronic Supply, Ham Radio Outlet,etc.) If you have room for more
antennas later you can make or purchase more elaborate and complex ones
that will work with additional gain and directivity in a specific
direction (beams, quads, etc.) but as a first antenna you'll find the
dipole hard to beat! Pick up an antenna handbook at a hamfest somewhere
and it will give you lots of ideas and insight into antennas.
73,
Pat Haynes-K4BEH
Hamming since 1954
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 09:42:01 -0500 "Jack Rubin" <jack.rubin@ameritech.net>
writes:
> Excuse me for jumping in here, and really, I'm not trying to pour
> gasoline
> on the fire!
>
> I'm a new Tech with an Omni D waiting for me to pass my code test;
> in the
> meantime I'm reading this list and a few others and soaking up a lot
> of
> information (including the fact that various folks have had varying
> experiences and often have divergent opinions).
>
> I'm especially interested in this thread because I've yet to install
> a
> "serious" antenna - I've been SWL'ing with a slinky - and I'm
> looking for an
> antenna with the magic combination of low cost, low visual/spousal
> impact
> and good performance. At this point, something like the folded
> dipole might
> make some sense for space reasons, but here's my specific question -
> has
> anyone had experience with the Isotron line of antennas? They are
> at
> http://www.isotronantennas.com/ - not an all-band product but
> definitely
> "stealthy".
>
> Thanks and 73s,
>
> Jack
> KC9HVE
>
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