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Re: [IRCA] New antenna
A picture or three would be very nice. I'm trying to wrap my brain around the words, but I just got back from working the UGA/GSU game and I can't seem to do it. Don't go to much trouble for the pictures, but take one or a few if you can. Thanks!
Bert New
Watkinsville, Georgia
Proudly Serving You Since 1964!
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> From: ng0g@xxxxxxxxx
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:05:04 -0500
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] New antenna
>
> Ira,
>
> On Saturday 30 August 2008 06:46:41 am Ira Elbert New, III wrote:
>> Can you pass along the specs? I would love to put something up here for
>> 160m. Congrats on the catch and the QSO too!
>>
>
> Certainly. I started with 128 feet of wire. My coax turns where it comes
> out of the side of the house, and goes along side the house about 12 feet to
> a point about 4 feet off the ground and along side an unused chimney. There
> I have a fence post with a small shelf on it, and an old rubbermaid tool
> screwed to it.
>
> Inside the tool box is a 750 pico farad vacuum variable capacitor. The coax
> splits here.
> The shield goes to a ground rod, and to wire that is electrically bonded to
> about 200 feet of 4 foot high chain link fence that acts as a giant radial.
> Another wire goes the other way around the house for more ground plane.
>
> The hot side goes into the side of the tool box and fastens to one end of the
> vacuum variable (VV). The other side of the VV has a wire fastened to it
> that goes out the other end of the tool box and runs up along side the
> chimney about 3.5 feet from it. At the top of the chimney I used chimney
> straps to attach a 12 foot pole with an insulator attached to it. The wire
> goes up and through the insulator and then horizontally back to the east
> until it runs out of wire. There I have another insulator and then rope to a
> pole at the back of the garage.
>
> I will send a photo or two later today if you would like.
>
> Steve
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