I sent this to the reflector last Tuesday but it never posted on the
reflector; here it is again:
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:03:13 -0800
To: Elecraft Reflector
From: Edward R Cole <[email protected]>
Subject: OT: Antenna ideas for a cheap ham
This might be considered an offshoot of the OT R8 discussion - read on:
A local ham friend dropped by to show my an antenna he had acquired
wondering what freq. it covered. After looking it over I decided it
was a 36-MHz quarter wave vertical with decoupling section at the
base and fed with a gamma-match. The gamma has a 7/16 coax
connector with N-female adapter, so apparently commercial band.
My friend also recently acquired an 80-foot crank-up tower for $100
(Yes, you read that correctly). Some guys are really lucky! He
lives on disability so has few funds for ham radio, but asks me what
antennas he can put on top of his tower. He does not want a
directional antenna like a yagi...sooo
First we considered he could lengthen the 72-inch commercial
vertical to operate on 10m and mount it on top of the tower. But
that would only give him one band.He could also shorten it to 6m but
there is little local activity on that band so 10m probably would
provide him better use.
For HF bands I thought about a dipole with auto-tuner. Finally
thought maybe running sloping dipoles might work well. Base load
that tower as grounded vertical? 160-40m?
Another note: He has a tech-class license so that limits where he
can operate. I suggested upgrading to General and he is not adverse
to doing that. He owns a IC-706.
Any suggestions?
73, Ed - KL7UW
http://www.kl7uw.com
"Kits made by KL7UW"
Dubus Mag business:
[email protected]
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