[TenTec] Portable QRP/SOTA

[Tim]

Hi Reed,

Good point here. I have done fairly well with a 35ft and 65 ft piece of 
wire with a nice counterpoise. In the past though I used folded dipoles, 
using 450 ladder line for the radiator and 300 ohm line for the feeder. 
I will definitely give a folded dipole a go this summer. Depending on 
the location an inverted V is not really that much harder to use, but 
will be a bit more bulky to carry.

Hehe, if I were still down there I might have tried a "mid-point" site 
we used to use for a TV microwave relay back in the analog days. It was 
on HWY 231 in Trousdale county. From way out there you could see every 
low power TV station in downtown Nashville just because of the site 
elevation.

Tim
KE4KE



On 03/19/2016 07:23 PM, Reed wrote:
> Well Barry, I guess I haven't hit the magic length to do well with a 
> random piece of wire.  I've made contacts, but compared to a dipole or 
> resonant end feed antenna there just wasn't any comparison. Guess if 
> you are on top of a mountain the random wire will do well, but we 
> don't have any mountains here in middle TN. Plenty of hills!  I live 
> on one!
>
> 73,
> Reed  W4JZ
>
>
> I've had excellent results with a variety of properly fed random wires 
> when
> operating QRP portable.
>
> 73, Barry N1EU
>
>
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