If you have access to some space (I hide my antenna in the HOA 'common area' trees, no one looks up or even uses that area), then what I use may be of interest to you.
A 340' dipole (170' per leg, ~5/8 wave on 80 meters) fed with window line through a DX engineering common mode choke (coax to the rig) matches on all bands 80-6 with the K3/100. The pattern will change from band to band (cloud heater on 74, but I worked ZL7 last night on 40). But for a 'simple' antenna, I'm quite pleased. Although adding a few tens of feet more wire would give me 160 M coverage, it works so well now I don't want to mess with it. It's only 30-50' above dirt. If I had pines instead of oaks, it would work better. ;-) I used an 'Antenna Launcher' to get the wires over the trees and as I put it up on a weekday when everyone was at work/school, no one knows its there. http://www.antennalaunchers.com/antlaunching.html 73, Rick WA6NHC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
