[TowerTalk] Antennas for 80m

[Steve Hunt]

Looks like you would have plenty of room for an 80m Inverted-L with the 
vertical section at the far end of the yard away from the house and the 
horizontal section running back towards a tie-off point on the house. Of 
course, you would need to get some radials down.

You even have enough horizontal length to make it slightly longer than a 
1/4 wave - that would raise the radiation resistance and improve the 
efficiency if your radial system is not great. A fixed matching network 
at the feedpoint would fix the VSWR on the coax back to the shack.

73,
Steve G3TXQ



On 23/04/2011 10:20, Charlie Gallo wrote:
> Hi Gang,
> More questions for the shack rebuild
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> As you saw from my previous posts, I have 10-40m covered fairly well (well, except 30m - and no real interest there)
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> The issue is 80m
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> As I said before, I have a SMALL NYC lot (42x98), with the house set in the middle, and NOTHING for support in the front - I probably have a MAX length of 50 ft if I go diagonally across the back yard
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> Right now I have an old TV Evans 17/80 trapped dipole up for 80m, and it barely fits (when the new antennas go up, I'll be able to raise that - a LOT, but it'll still be low and short)
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> The question is - what to do for 80m?
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> I COULD put up say an HF2V, but the radial field will be all in one direction, and a friend who has one says the noise here in NYC is insane (and it would have to wait till the new driveway would go in - the radials will go under the new driveway)
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> Anyone have other ideas?  Is the HF2V the way to go in my situation?
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> Thanks
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