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VE3GZB
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« on: May 25, 2011, 02:40:36 PM »
I like this guy's reasoning.

http://www.qsl.net/wb1gfh/antenna.html
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Ralph W3GL
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« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2011, 02:58:35 PM »

Yep, good stuff...  Joe is a member here on this forum...

 
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« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2011, 03:51:50 PM »
Reminds me of my first antenna:  a roof mounted 40M dipole, a sawed off broomstick was the mast, the feedline was zip cord.   It probably cost no
more than a couple of dollars for the parts.   I did not know any better so the feedline was fed unbalanced, one side to ground the other to the output
of the transmitter.    I contacted just about every novice station I could hear.
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« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2011, 08:21:10 PM »
My main station antenna is nothing more than Army Surplus Field telephone wire, bought by the 1/2 mile spool years ago at Aberdeen for $15.00! And insulators are scrap 1/2" plexiglass and salvaged telegraph insulators.
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« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2011, 02:19:50 PM »
This says it all. Talk about giving up an AMEN!!!

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The plain and simple truth is that wire antennas for the HF bands were intended to be hand-made and not store-bought.
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