evilghost
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Springville, AL | Pseudo-Poll; What type of HF antenna(s) are you using?
As the topic states, please describe the HF antenna you are using. Thanks! |
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Axilla
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Schofield, WI
clubs: | 83ft folded dipole unfortunately mounted in my apartments attic, but its better than nothing, and much better than what i have had in the past. |
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GeekNJ
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Waldwick, NJ | reply to evilghost
I'm using a 102' True Talk G5RV. Purchased off eBay where WA2NAN sells them. |
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evilghost
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Springville, AL
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July 15th, @01:33PM
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I'm used a 126ft dipole folded in a V (not an inverted vee) about 35 feet off the ground connected to a 1:1 choke balun running on 75 Ohm feedline into an FT-900
I'm able to tune and work 75/80m > 3.850 MHz, 20m, 15m, and 10m. |
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n1zuk
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Right now, it is the dreaded OPA (other people's antennas), as I'm in a radio-free zone condo. 
Next year, after we move, I'll put back up my Carolina Windom 80. When it was up last, it definitely wasn't up as high as I would of liked, but it was a pretty good performer.
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M3JZT
join:2008-07-09 | reply to evilghost
At this time I use a G5RV that is inverted,... |
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kfolsom
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Yucaipa, CA | reply to evilghost
10 M vert. |
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TROLL131313
join:2004-12-21
Horsham, PA
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I live in a small first floor apartment, so I am pretty well screwed...meh
Right now I am using a Bud Stick vertical at home and for QRP. It works pretty well for what it is.
Tho I am planing to put a folded dipole up fed with 450 Ohm ladder line and 4:1 ballen. Or even a loop...I wonder if the 703's auto tuner can handle it.......  |
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Ender3rd
join:2001-07-15
East Granby, CT
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For 160 - 75 - 60 - 40 meters I use a 256 foot center fed with open wire feed in an inverted vee configuration with the apex at 70 feet and the ends at 40 feet. I recently added 75 meter elements under the 160 meter elements so I suppose it is now a fan dipole that loads on all the above bands. For 20 -17 - 15 - 12 - 10 meters I use a coax fed fan dipole up about 40 feet. Not much DX travels through those wires but it's all good for high angle chat.
Rob W1AEX
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Tommyastro
join:2004-01-18
Poughkeepsie, NY | reply to evilghost
A G5RV in a "V" shape, opened end to the south.
For 10m a Cushcraft vertical. |
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mb
join:2000-07-23
Washington, NJ | reply to evilghost
4el Triband Yagi (Mosley TA34M) at 55' directed by a CDE Ham III series 2 rotor fed with 110' of Belden 9913F7 coaxial cable |
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boog
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Trenton, OH
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Right now I am using a Ringo AR-10. It will also tune up on 12, 15, 17, and 20 with the built in tuner on my Kenwood TS 570D.
I have a G5RV that needs repaired and put up in the air (just have to figure out how I'm going to hang it on my little lot).
I do a lot of mobile hf, and I run a 102" whip mounted on a triple magnet mount on the roof of my little pickup. With the LDG Z100 it will tune it clear down to 40 meters (haven't made any contacts with it on 40 to know if it will really work or not), but works quite well on 20. And the 102" is physically (but not electrically) longer than the Hustler 20 meter antenna, and I can receive better on all the bands with the 102". It just seems to be the best mobile antenna I have tried yet (of course I haven't tried a screwdriver, but they cost too much and I can be hard on an antenna, running it through parking garages and such), and about the cheapest too! |
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jcallari
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I'm using an Alpha Delta DX-EE quad band dipole. 40/20/15/10...
Good antenna, and pleased with the performance. 40 meters has very narrow bandwidth (mine is cut for the cw portion of the band) and all other bands operate from 1.7:1 to 1.1:1 throughout the bands. |
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UHF
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clubs: | reply to evilghost
40m dipole.
Thinking of doing a 135' off-center fed dipole with a 4:1 balun. |
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KeysCapt
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clubs: | reply to evilghost
Hy-Gain AV-620 sitting atop a 20' steel mast against the back of the house.
»www.eham.net/reviews/detail/555 |
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W7PSK
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Everett, WA | reply to evilghost
For 10-15-20 I have An A4S on a 9ft Glenn Martin Roof Tower. Its about 4ft up on a 6 ft mast. So maybe 28ft up total.
On other bands I have a Northwest antennas LC-160F running North South. 1 leg at 45 ft the other at 30ft. |
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drjim
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Torrance, CA
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A 24' Shakespeare military vertical with about 600' of counterpoise wires of various lengths, fed by an SGC SmartTuner at the base. It's on the roof of a large two-story commercial building, and goes against the old adage that "Verticals Radiate Equally Poorly In All Directions"! It works like gangbusters, and I always get questions about what I'm using.
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hbarbrey
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join:2000-03-19
Kirkland, IL
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A couple of wire dipoles tuned to the operating frequency they are designed for so that I don't have to mess with a tuner ( i have about 25 kc to work with ) and I have a SteppIR 4 element with 30/40 meter add-on on a 80 foot free standing tower.
howard
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tobicat
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Tombstone, AZ | Hy-gain DX 88 mounted with base at 25ft with 2 tuned radials for every band.
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KA3SGM
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Currently a 120'ish Dipole cut for 75m.
My MFJ-986 Tuner will also load it up on 160m, 20m, and 10m without complaining.
Dedicated 20m dipole that has been overgrown by the trees that it is strung from, so I need to do some serious pruning before I put it back into normal use.
Dedicated 40m/15m Dipole that is constructed but still needs to be put up in the trees to replace the original that fell when I lost a tree in a bad thunderstorm.
Cushcraft AR-10 Vertical for 10m that is sitting on my back porch and waiting for a permanent location to be installed in.
I am concentrating on HF antennas that are resonant for the band I want to use them on.
I have yet to attempt getting my Ameritron AL-572B amplifier running into anything more than a dummy load so far, and I don't want to burn up the tuner or the amp trying to load 1kw+ of power into any non-resonant antennas.
With emphasis that I keep the antenna tuner in-line, and use it only as much as I need to keep SWR at 1:1 from band edge to band edge, and not trying to load a 20m dipole on 160m.
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