I do not have the tower, rotor, or money for a yagi on 40m and 80m where I
hang out. I do not have the space for a 80 dipole, and I can only place an
antenna up about 30', maybe 35'
if I get lucky. Right now I have a 40m dipole up about 25' fed with 50ohm
coax right into an antenna tuner, MFJ 941. It is very hard to tune for
other bands, especially 80m.
I have looked at many of the Antenna books and most of them will make a
antenna genius out of you. They go deep into the subjects of everything. I
just want to put up an effective wire antenna but cannot even figure out
what's what when looking at these books. It seems like all the contruction
articals say they are the best. However they also say that it has to be a
1/4 wave length up which I cannot achieve on 80m. I was hoping that you
guys could take a look at my limitations and give me some suggestions.
I have four tree's marked with an * and a number. I also have two chimneys
maked [] but
these are on a ranch style home that are probly only 15' up.
* 2
* 1 * 3
+------------------+-+
[]| HOUSE | |[] <-SHACK
+------------------+-+
* 4
Between tree 1 and 3 is 60', 3 and 4 is 75', tree 2 is not in the middle,
and about 10' off the line of 1 and 3.
I know this question is probly out of the ordinary but I was hoping that
you guys/gals could help me out on this one. If nothing else than tell me
to toss up a dipole again, but before I do that I wanted to get a few
opinions on wire antennas before putting one up a that has plans of staying
for a while.
Thanks for any information,
KB8LFA
Jeremy Cowgar
jcowgar@villers.com
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