OK,
I ran the random wire, It was a convenient length, from the eve of the
house just outside the shack with a like ten foot length of RG-58 from
the tuner, and out with the wire to a tree almost due south 75 feet away.
No ground system, wire connected to center conductor of the coax. braid
On 12/17/2018 9:10 AM, Gary Kohtala - K7EK via Topband wrote:
Short the braid and center conductor and attach that to your tuner single wire connection.. It will work much better than connecting only one side. This willgive you a top loaded vertical or semi vertical. I've done it with100w
Short the braid and center conductor and attach that to your tuner single wire
connection.. It will work much better than connecting only one side. This
willgive you a top loaded vertical or semi vertical. I've done it with100w
without issues of RFI. Higher power might be a different
oor antenna on 160.
73, K3OX
- Original Message -
From: "Joe"
To: "TopBand"
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 9:31:49 AM
Subject: Topband: 160 Antenna
OK, as users of this band, we all have probably done this at least once
in your radio lifetime.
You want to get
When I was a newlywed in 1975 and lived in a downstairs apartment of a two
story house, I put up a quarterwave wire that started at ground level,
never got over 20 feet high, zig zagged around the yard from tree to tree.
I think I drove in a short piece of aluminum tubing for a ground
connection.
Joe said
"You want to get on 160, but do not have an actual 160 antenna. So you
connect the largest antenna ya have, usually a 80 meter dipole, but you
just push the connector in just so only the center pin is touching, and
load the whole thing up like a top capacity hat, vertical, or end fed
OK, as users of this band, we all have probably done this at least once
in your radio lifetime.
You want to get on 160, but do not have an actual 160 antenna. So you
connect the largest antenna ya have, usually a 80 meter dipole, but you
just push the connector in just so only the center pin
