[TowerTalk] What do do on 80 when height restricted?

[Jack Brindle]

Is he limited to a vertical? If not (and I hope not) a long dipole as high as he can get it should work quite well. I have had a lot of success with open-wire fed antennas of many configurations at that height. 200 or so feet of center-fed wire works miracles, and currently I use a 250 foot closed horizontal loop that does quite well on many bands. I need a tuner, of course. The old tank-circuit style works very well, although you have to manually tune it, or a auto-tuner with balun (fed with as short of coax as possible) also works very well.

The trick here is to get something in the air and experiment with it to get the best results. And while he is at it, try it on the higher bands. 200' of wire as described above can put a very sharp signal somewhat off the ends on 10 meters. You might be surprised at how well this sort of antenna works.

Jack , W6FB 

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> My son KC2PWX is looking for a solution to a 80 meter antenna, problem is he has about 30-35 vertical feet he can go. He is using a ground mounted 5btv but is is awful on 80. Any idea?
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> John J. Nistico
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