Posted by
David Cutter on
Dec 07, 2008; 5:23pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Poor-man-s-beverage-and-diversity-tp1623198p1625716.html
So, if you made it 19% longer with some zig-zags, it would be resonant in
the middle of the cw band and no need for matching, just connect to coax. I
imagine it's fairly broad band being so close to the earth.
David
G3UNA
> 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
>
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
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