Less Than Perfect Antennas [was Flumoxed]
Posted by
ANDY DURBIN on
Dec 06, 2018; 1:56pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Flumoxed-tp7646765p7646861.html
"RF current into a conductor will radiate, even if it's at eye level."
Yes, I make this point to anyone interested in getting started on HF. I worked my first 50 or so countries with 100 W and a 20 m dipole at 20 ft agl in my attic. If you want an example of working DX with hopeless antennas it would be hard to beat my working VP6D on 160 m and 80 m. I used an OCF wire running round my back yard wall at 5 ft agl. It is matched by a MFJ 993BRT at the feed point and that limits me to 150 W. They must have had zero noise on the island.
Andy, k3wyc
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