Re: Poor man's beverage and diversity
Posted by
Vic K2VCO on
Dec 07, 2008; 4:29pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Poor-man-s-beverage-and-diversity-tp1623198p1625603.html
David Cutter wrote:
> Sounds like this one:
> <
http://users.erols.com/k3mt/graswire/graswire.htm>
>
[referring to my original post]
>> A few minutes before the start of the ARRL 160m contest I decided to
>> try something I'd heard about. I took about 180 feet (55m) of wire and
>> laid it on the ground from my shack, across the backyard, around the
>> back of my garage and all the way down the edge of the driveway.
My 180' wire was resonant at about 2.2 mHz, where the SWR was around 1.4:1. Since signals
not down all that much compared to the vertical, I am sure that it would have worked as a
transmitting antenna, and possibly without a tuner if I had lengthened it a bit.
The interesting part is that it doesn't need to be straight to work. This could be very
useful in a real emergency.
--
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
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