RE: RE: [Elecraft] T1 Antenna Considerations

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Zenker
] On Behalf Of Ron D'Eau Claire Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:19 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: RE: [Elecraft] T1 Antenna Considerations Martin wrote: ...another antenna I have used is a 66ft length of wire at 15feet, fed in the centre with 300 ohm twinlead

RE: RE: [Elecraft] T1 Antenna Considerations

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Zenker
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Gillen Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:43 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: RE: [Elecraft] T1 Antenna Considerations Hi, Peter. Please excuse my ignorance I'm fairly new to amateur radio ;) But I have a question

Re: RE: [Elecraft] T1 Antenna Considerations

2006-01-05 Thread Martin Gillen
Hi, Peter. Please excuse my ignorance I'm fairly new to amateur radio ;) But I have a question: The only reason that the use the nearby bushes construct now can be tuned by the T1 is that the impedance goes low because a part of the antenna is lying on the floor now, giving high capacitance

RE: RE: [Elecraft] T1 Antenna Considerations

2006-01-05 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
Martin wrote: ...another antenna I have used is a 66ft length of wire at 15feet, fed in the centre with 300 ohm twinlead. In this case, the driven half of the wire is still 33ft long - but I get really low SWR om 20m and have worked DX with it, So why does that work? Is the feedline doing