sounds great - will check that out, I sure have the trees for it


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DX99,
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Instead of a Long Wire Antenna.
Why not try a SkyWire Loop Antenna. "Sky Wire" ? ? ?
Check-Out the SkyWire Loop Antenna Group on YAHOO !
For people interested in building and using a SkyWire Loop Antenna.
GoTo= http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SkyWires/
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One Wave Length for the 120 Meter Shortwave Band
is roughly a 419 Feet Loop Antenna. For Receiving "Only"
use a 4:1, 9:1 or 16:1 Balun and Coax Cable Feed-in-Line.
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One Wave Length for the 160 Meter Amateur Band is
roughly a 529 Feet Loop Antenna. For both Transmitting
and Receiving use a 1:1 Balun and Coax Cable Feed-in-Line
or a direct connecting using Ladder Line.
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Any 'shape' Circle/Square/Polygon you can make using
the available Trees with the Wire Antenna Element about
20 Feet above the Ground.
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The Horizontal "SkyWire" Loop Antenna can be a very
Low Noise Antenna with relatively Strong Signal Levels
due to its large size.
GoTo= http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SkyWires/
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iane ~ RHF
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