One of my favorite wire antennas is a simple 20M dipole (34 ft total)
fed with Ladderline. It has a figure 8 pattern from 10 thru 30 meters.
Put up 2 or 3 of them at 40 to 60 ft and you will cover the world.
I have worked over 320 countries on each of the WARC bands using
only dipole antennas (mostly 80 and 20M ladderline fed dipoles).
Tom N4KG
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:17:02 -0700 (PDT) Jeffrey Clarke <ku8e1@yahoo.com>
writes:
>
> Hi Y'all,
>
> I am limited to only wire antennas at my present QTH and trying to
> think of some good gain wire antennas to put up. I was thinking of a
> Bi-Square for 10 meters - if you short the top you could use it as
> a
> quad loop on 20 meters. Anyone ever put one of these up and have any
> suggestions on how to feed them (450 ohm open-wire?) and a quick and
> easy way to short the top (relay?) ??? Any other suggestions for
> antennas (for 20-15-10) would be appreciated. Right now I have more
> room up then across my backyard (it's maybe 50x50 ft) with some nice
> high trees. Presently have up a center-fed zepp with open wire (cut
> for
> 40 meters)in a Inverted Vee configuration up about 60 ft or so.
>
> 73's Jeff KU8E (/4)
>
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