[SEDXC] Wire Antennas

[Gary McConville]

If you do go to home depot (or anywhere else) to buy a spool, look for
the ones with excess wire on it just falling off the spool.  When they
finish winding on the spools, sometime there's another 20% extra
instead of them having it laying around.


--- "John Harden, D.M.D." <jhdmd at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I would go to Home Depot and buy #14 stranded, insulated wire. It
> comes in
> 500 foot spools and is quite reasonable. I have built countless wire
> antennas over the years, and they are easy to make without buying
> prefabricated antennas that are way over-priced. 
> 
> A great wire antenna for 20, 17, 15, 12 & 10 meters is the Lazy "H".
> When
> configured properly you can see gain figures of 5-6 dBd. You
> typically feed
> this antenna with 450 ohm open-wire line and you will need a tuner.
> However,
> you can work multiple bands with it. It is bi-directional and the
> specs can
> be found in any ARRL antenna book or the Radio Amateur's Handbook, or
> on the
> Internet.
> 
> 73,
> 
> John, W4NU
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sedxc-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:sedxc-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Michael Almeter
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:56 PM
> To: SEDXC at contesting.com
> Subject: [SEDXC] Wire Antennas
> 
> Well,
>     Folks, I am looking for a good wire antenna provider. I recently
> ordered
> from Radio Works, 2 "manufacturing defected" antenna's later, I am
> looking
> for a good source of RELIABLE wire antenna's. I built a 80 meter
> windom,
> which has gotten me to 140 countries worked, but am looking for
> something
> that can handle power. Anyone have any suggestions? 
> 
> 
> Michael Almeter
> W4MJA
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