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w4rnl (sk) and antennas

Robert 'RC' Conley
If you are able to locate L.B. Cebik's FDIM presentian on his TOP FIVE
MULTIBAND BACK YARD ANTENNAS this is a very good place to start when
looking at antennas. My preference has always been the vertical antenna
with a large (30in 1000' of wire) radial system. Which has netted DXCC QRP
CW (5 watts) for me.
RC KC5WA
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Re: w4rnl (sk) and antennas

Tony Scandurra K4QE
You can find it here:

http://www.qsl.net/v73ns/backyardwireantennaes.pdf

73, Tony K4QE

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Robert 'RC' Conley <[hidden email]>
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> If you are able to locate L.B. Cebik's FDIM presentian on his TOP FIVE
> MULTIBAND BACK YARD ANTENNAS this is a very good place to start when
> looking at antennas. My preference has always been the vertical antenna
> with a large (30in 1000' of wire) radial system. Which has netted DXCC QRP
> CW (5 watts) for me.
> RC KC5WA
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Re: w4rnl (sk) and antennas

Jim Brown-10
On Fri,12/11/2015 7:50 AM, Anthony Scandurra wrote:
> You can find it here:
>
> http://www.qsl.net/v73ns/backyardwireantennaes.pdf

Lots of great ideas here.

73, Jim K9YC
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Re: w4rnl (sk) and antennas

Mike Furrey
As Jim mentions, this is a good article worth saving and it includes one of my favorite and often used antenna, the 20 meter EDZ - 86 feet long. I have also used this antenna on bands above 20 meters and on 10 it produces a nice clover-leaf pattern with gain. I had two of these at right angles to each other at a school I taught at.

As for using it with the K3 ... I installed the internal tuner and at the output I attached a 4:1 balun. Some bands the K3 could not find a suitable match and I solved that by adjusting the length of the 450 ohm ladder line going to the antenna (can't remember the length). In another case I obtained a match by changing the length of RG8 between the K3 and the balun. In an apartment in FL I used the antenna in a stealth manor, 43 feet 18 gauge insulated green wire suspended from the limb of a tree outside my unit and 43 feet horizontal, hid in the same big tree. It worked very nicely. (Maybe I should write up the antenna I used on 160 in the SP test from that apartment.)

For NAQP I built a 10 meter EDZ and suspended the entire antenna vertically and that also worked nicely. 
73, Mike WA5POK
 


    On Friday, December 11, 2015 10:57 AM, Jim Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:
 

 On Fri,12/11/2015 7:50 AM, Anthony Scandurra wrote:
> You can find it here:
>
> http://www.qsl.net/v73ns/backyardwireantennaes.pdf

Lots of great ideas here.

73, Jim K9YC
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Re: w4rnl (sk) and antennas

KEN-3
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Good article, a lot to read and digest.   Thanks for sharing Tony.

Ken WA8JXM

On 12/11/15 10:50 AM, Anthony Scandurra wrote:
> You can find it here:
>
> http://www.qsl.net/v73ns/backyardwireantennaes.pdf
>
> 73, Tony K4QE

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