Topband: Fw: Good Antenna For Little Back Yard

[EP Swynar]

...On 11th August 2007, Tim wrote:

 "...I soldered one length on the center of a SO239 chassis mount (UHF
female) connector. The other end of this wire I curled around for a string.
The other two 132 ft pcs I soldered to the SO-239's outside (using 2 holes)
points for radials...The antenna worked great! With a part-time 100 watt
effort I worked 46 states and 7 DXCC countries. Not bad for a simple 160
 meter antenna.

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 Hi Tim,

 Yours is a timeless classic, to be sure!

 Back some 19 years ago, when I still resided in restrictive "suburbia", I
desperately tried a set-up very much like yours: running 750-watts of input,
in one 160-meter "season" I managed to work 49 States, and every continent
(save for Asia) from my 50' wide back yard.

 Since that time I've harboured a LOT of respect for the inverted "L" in all
its different variations...the experience shattered in my mind the myth that
160-meter DX could never be the forte of the "...real estate challenged", as
I was then...

 ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ