At 09:06 PM 9/15/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Hi fellow TT'ians
>
>I want to make a linear loaded inverted L for 160. The vertical part
>would be 65 feet long, and the linear loaded part would be 30 feet. I
>want to hook one side of the stub to the top of the vertical wire, and
>then short the other end of the stub. Would 300 ohm ribbon be too
>narrow for the stub, or would I have to make some kind of open wire stub
>for the linear loaded portion. Thanks and 73
>Tom W7WHY
Tom....
You need about 130 feet to make a good inverted L. Oh, you can place a
coil in the horizontal leg and get by with that....or you can use a series
capacitor at the bottom to tune it. But, I do not use a stub in the sense
that I understand you to mean. At 130 feet you can almost feed it direct
because it is a quarter wave at 160 meters....and of course a half wave at
80 meters. I have one that is 55 verticle and 75 feet horizontal. Works
FB with a bunch of radials underneath the verticle part. I have around 10
random length radials...cause that is what I can get onto the lot.
See the Handbook for more disucssion, but they are a very simple antenna.
Lee
k0wa@southwind.net
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