[CQ-Contest] [GoFRC] antenna advice

[David Warnick]

Not sure how long an antenna you are able to put up.

In your situation,  I've always had my best luck with an open-wire fed (I make my own with 1/2" flex water pipe that I get in 100' rolls) dipoles. Longer antennas tend to be better. Understand that your radiation pattern will probably be different on every band, though you will be able to make contacts. You should use a true balanced-line tuner (I had the Palstar BT1500 which is great). This is a great opportunity for you to experiment. Since your ropes are up, I've got to assume that height and antenna length are fixed. It's also easy to move your feed off center if it's supported at both ends, but I understand that you prefer center fed.

Good luck with the project

73

Dave

WA3F

> On September 13, 2018 at 7:11 PM "Bobby via Groups.Io" <radiodelaware-gofrc=yahoo.com at groups.io> wrote:
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>     Advice sought for simple wire antenna installation...
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>     We just put up a center fed wire antenna that loaded up OK on 30, 20, 15, 10 for some reason, but poorly on 40 and 80. An external manual tuner helped out on 40 but not 80.
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>     I want to put up a SINGLE WIRE ANTENNA for 80 to 10, or close to it. 20 or 40 is usually where I wind up.  Since the ropes are up, center fed is what I want.
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>     This will be for a TS-590SG for a little bit of low power unassisted CW contesting. 
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>     I've had so many antennas and radios in the past, I can barely remember.
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>     Please give me your two cents.
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>     Thanks and GO FRC!!
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>                                                       Bob N9GG
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