> Here's another idea. > > Run a wire inside your shirt from one cuff across your back and down to > the other cuff. Wrap loading coils around each arm just above the > elbow. Feed the "dipole" in the center at the back of your neck. > > I did a quick model (assuming your arms are held straight out) with 5.5 > feet total length and 2200 inductive ohms for each coil, with each coil > 30% from their respective ends of the wire. It "resonates" at around > 14.15 MHz, but with only about 0.4 ohms real feedpoint impedance. I > assume it would take some sort of extra matching network to bring that > up enough that a KX2 with the internal tuner could drive it. > > Ignoring the effect of a person's arm, another quick calculation says > that the arm coils would need to be roughly 11 turns of 10 gauge wire > 3.5 inches in diameter ... unless I made a mistake, which is quite > possible. > > It would bring new meaning to the term "compromise antenna", but I bet > it would be more effective than a super small loop the size of backpack > frame. > > 73, > Dave AB7E
Wouldn't that be a 'scarecrow' antenna? 73, -- Dave, N8SBE ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
