[TowerTalk] End fed Hertz

[Rob Atkinson, K5UJ]

<<<By the way, my very first antenna for 80 meters was a Fuchs
antenna, also known as an end-fed Hertz. If you have the
Radio Handbook 15th edition that antenna is on page 426,
right next to the Zepp antennas.  Some names just don't
stick.>>>

the End fed Hertz!  have not heard that name in years.  When my family lived 
in the country back in the 1970s and we had room, I had an end fed hertz.   
At least, that's what I called it; it may not have really been one.  It was 
a  long random length of wire that came directly into the shack where I 
tuned it with an L network.   I used it on 80 and 40 and it was okay as i 
only ran about 50 w. on cw.   On 20 m. it became the more exotic sounding 
"long wire" but that was probably a misnomer too.

rob / k5uj

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