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It all depends on what you want to do , is it for transmit , receive, or
both ? First of all you need room, lots of it and if so what do you want, 1/2 wave, 1/4 wave or a full wave. Assuming one wave , well on 160mtrs it would roughtly be over 400' long and you would need heavy cables for wires and two towers or phone poles. There is no way to set up a diapole with trees, it will snap on a windy day. Your best bet would be the G5RV ANTENNA THE G5RV ANTENNA, with its special feeder arrangement, is a multiband centre-fed antenna capable of very efficient operation on all hf bands from 3.5 to 28mhz, specifically designed with dimensions which allow it to be installed in gardens which accommodate a reasonably-straight run of about 102ft (31.1m) for the "flat-top". However, because the most useful radiation from a horizontal or inverted-V resonant antenna takes place from the center two-thirds of its total length, up to one-sixth of this total length at each end of the antenna may be dropped vertically, semi-vertically, or bent at some convenient angle to the main body of the antenna without significant loss of effective radiation efficiency. For installation in a very limited space, the dimensions of both the "flat-top" and the matching section can be divided be a factor of two to make the half-size G5RV, which is a very efficient antenna from 7 to 28 mhz. The full-size G5RV will also function on 1.8mhz band if the station end of the feeder (either balanced or coaxial-type) is strapped and fed by a suitable antenna tuner using a good earth connection or a counterpoise wire. Similarly, the half-size version may be used thus on 3.5 and 1.8 mhz bands. **Beware that some antenna tuners cannot match this antenna !!** Bob , 73, VA2BIK |
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Assuming one wave , well on 160mtrs it would roughtly be over 400' long
and you would need heavy cables for wires and two towers or phone poles. There is no way to set up a diapole with trees, it will snap on a windy day. ========================= A wire antenna between 2 trees can be very reliable provided there are no branches in the immediate vicinity of the wire and that connection to 1 tree is via a pulley with freely suspended counterweight ,such that when it is windy and parts of trees move the wire remains straight. A really simple arrangement. Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH |
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Assuming one wave , well on 160mtrs it would roughtly be over 400' long
and you would need heavy cables for wires and two towers or phone poles. There is no way to set up a diapole with trees, it will snap on a windy day. ========================= A wire antenna between 2 trees can be very reliable provided there are no branches in the immediate vicinity of the wire and that connection to 1 tree is via a pulley with freely suspended counterweight ,such that when it is windy and parts of trees move the wire remains straight. A really simple arrangement. Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH |
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While a G5RV is an efficient antenna on 20, and acceptable on many bands, it
is terribly inneficient on other bands due to the high mis match on the coax. It is easy to check out with Reg's dipole 3 program. John "Frank Dinger" wrote in message ... Assuming one wave , well on 160mtrs it would roughtly be over 400' long and you would need heavy cables for wires and two towers or phone poles. There is no way to set up a diapole with trees, it will snap on a windy day. ========================= A wire antenna between 2 trees can be very reliable provided there are no branches in the immediate vicinity of the wire and that connection to 1 tree is via a pulley with freely suspended counterweight ,such that when it is windy and parts of trees move the wire remains straight. A really simple arrangement. Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH |
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While a G5RV is an efficient antenna on 20, and acceptable on many bands, it
is terribly inneficient on other bands due to the high mis match on the coax. It is easy to check out with Reg's dipole 3 program. John "Frank Dinger" wrote in message ... Assuming one wave , well on 160mtrs it would roughtly be over 400' long and you would need heavy cables for wires and two towers or phone poles. There is no way to set up a diapole with trees, it will snap on a windy day. ========================= A wire antenna between 2 trees can be very reliable provided there are no branches in the immediate vicinity of the wire and that connection to 1 tree is via a pulley with freely suspended counterweight ,such that when it is windy and parts of trees move the wire remains straight. A really simple arrangement. Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH |
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