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Re: Long wire antennas MORE

Posted by briancom on Jan 12, 2018; 4:35pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Long-wire-antennas-MORE-tp7637348p7637349.html

Just for kicks, I modeled it with a 1/4 wave counter poise up 12' up
from ground. 14 MHz.

Unfortunately where ground is a question.  What the parameters for
"ground" is a good question.  Snow doesn't look like earth.

Anyhow the impedance came out 11470 ohms +j 17880.
The horizontal antenna pattern was along the axis with a beam width of
3.8 degrees and a gain of almost 15 db

The vertical pattern peaked at 3 degrees and straight up 5 dB down.

73 de Brian/K3KO

On 1/12/2018 16:18 PM, Mal Speer wrote:

> I don't know much about antennas, but in the late 60s or early 70s I worked
> a station on 20 meters with a 10 mile long (long wire antenna).
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> That was KC4AAD in Antarctica. I don't have the QSL card I got back then,
> but was a picture of part of the antenna. I know it was 20 meters, because I
> only had a 20 meter antenna. A 3El wide spaced monobander up about 35 feet.
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> Mal WA2TWA
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