[SECC] ARRL 160 - KU8E
ku8e@bellsouth.net
ku8e at bellsouth.net
Mon Dec 5 10:54:54 EST 2005
I thought I would mention.
My antenna is a hastily put up inverted L. 50 ft vertical and 80 ft horizontal. I added some wire to
the current 80 inverted L I had up. It has 4 full size 130 ft radials plus the two 80 meter radials I was using for that band. It is not a perfect ground system but probably better than what most people would have on a city lot with short radials. In the past I have put UNUN's my inverted L's but I didn't have one built so the antenna is fed directly with RG213. It's funny every time I build an UNUN it ends up going to the Carribean. I gave one to KW8N when he did a 160 single band in CQWW from KP2A. The other one is at PJ2T.
I suspected without some type of matching device/ balun that the coax was acting like it was part of the antenna. I am going to work on this before CQWW 160 and I think when properly matched this antenna should work better..
Jeff KU8E
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