[TowerTalk] Wire Antenna Suggestions Wanted

Stein Roar Brobakken LA6FJA-K3RAG s-roabr at online.no
Tue Mar 3 12:02:00 PST 2009


Hi

why not try a extended Double Zepp Antenna ?

I used one for many years with 450 ohm ladder, mine was 2 x 65 ' and I wound a coil on each end on 3" PVC. this coil was wide space with 6mm2 electrical wire or 3mm wire for wounding coils. I think I had something like total length of 135' .on one version, but I also tried one with wires hanging down after the coils one both ends.

A friend of mine used one fullsized 453' Zepp once :) it had good gain too in length of the wires in 40/30 and 20m.

To avoid tuner I used a T400-2 amidon as 9:1 to get a nice match on most bands, but I had to tune in lower upper part of 80m/75m.

It had awesome gain and I remember it was a killer even with low power.

I recommend a Viking tuner or maybe a good 3KW tuner to handle the power.
The orginal MFJ tuner worked for a while,but I changed the rolling coil with one QRO from RF Parts.

73s Rag LA6FJA 




> From: RICHARD SOLOMON [w1ksz at q.com]
> Sent: 2009-03-03 16:31:07 CET
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> Subject: [TowerTalk] Wire Antenna Suggestions Wanted
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> A local club has access to two towers, 110' apart. They want to
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> put up a wire antenna for 30, 40 & 80. It will be at the 50' level
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> on the towers.
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> What would you folks recommend they get ?
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> Tnx es 73, Dick, W1KSZ
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