Personally, I would use ladder line to a wire antenna of any sort,
preferably without "traps", linear or otherwise. In my last property I used
4mm^2 wire stapled to the rafters into my Drake atu and it worked fine
across all HF. In another configuration, with the feeders strapped and used
as one half and a piece of tv coax passing thro the soffit board into a
ground stake with lots of radials around my front garden as the other half,
it worked on 160, 80 and 40 really quite well, tho, it did modulate the
lights on 20m. The K3 amu makes band-changing really easy. I use it for my
outside doublet.
What are the UK net freq, times, day?
David
G3UNA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian, G4ILO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] UK Elecraft net?
David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
I can here a number of stations, not sure if you got me as being on,
lots of adj. station interference I can't filter out.
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something about human nature that the only form of life we have
created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own
image.
Dave G4AON was the loudest with me, but he was still only a few dB above
the
constant S7 "frying" noise I get here. I called twice but I guess he
didn't
hear me. Also heard the station from Cumbria running 25 watts, but again
only a few dB over the noise. I actually could hear better on my 10m
dipole.
Signals were lower but the noise was even less. No chance of transmitting
into that, though.
All rigs had very clear audio that made it possible to copy despite the
poor
S/N ratio (no doubt the K3 RX helped.)
I have come to the conclusion that the slinky dipole is useless. I would
like to try a loaded dipole but I don't have the time to make one at the
moment, also I don't have an antenna analyzer so making one would be a bit
tricky. It would need to be no more than about 40 feet end to end to fit
into my attic without doubling back. Anyone know of something like that
which is commercially available? All I could find was the G3OJV 80plus2
which is just over 50 feet long, and I am not sure if it would fit, or
work,
in my attic.
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Julian, G4ILO
http://www.g4ilo.com/ G4ILO's Shack
http://www.ham-directory.com/ Ham Directory
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