I have also been experimenting with this sort of antenna on receive. Mine is wire about 80m long and follows the hedge boundary draped over bushes about a metre above ground level and terminated with
Thanks for the answers folks, I didn't realise that a small diameter wire was OK, so that has save me some money as I have a sizeable roll of smaller cable. I also have a pair of 6" heavy duty pyrex
Sorry to bewilder you Dave, but when it comes to LF wire aerials I really am a complete newbie. Although I've been licenced for over 40 years now, I have spent all my time up the "other end" of the s
Hi Stefan Height is a problem for me as I live in a designated "area of outstanding natural beauty", so I have to tread a bit carefully, hi. I have two towers 25m apart and both about 10m tall, and I
I fully intend to be QRV on 137 by the winter. On that note, can anyone recommend a reliable foolproof transmitter that uses easily available components ? Tony, EI8JK. -- Original Message -- From: g3
I will leave mine on overnight, although it would be a miracle if you made it this far on my mediocre set up. I might also lay some wire out and make an "earth antenna" too. I'm reasonably new to the
Sorry to ask a stupid newbie question but what is the best wire for my aerial ? I had thought about getting a couple of 100m rolls of cheapo RG58 and soldering the centre and screen together, or is t
Well, I was under the impression this hobby is wire-less. You mean I've been doing it wrong for 40 years ? He is winding u folks up !!!!!!!!!! A radio amateur for 40 years and never heard of WIRE Sor
There was a time in the UK when signaling on DC was an offence. Sending morse down a wire from one house to another infringed the monopoly of the GPO. So that means there must have been a relaxation
Hi Stefan. No antenna yet, although I have a few ideas. It won't be a massive affair but I should be able to get 150m of wire in the air in an inverted L, plus I'm surrounded by sea water and that mi
Would welding wire do, the CO2 welding wire about 1mm copper coated steel wire ? That I already have a roll of and it's available in Lidl this week. Tony, EI8JK. -- Original Message -- From: horst.st
Thanks for that Chris. I have the 2nd edition LF Today and the DF3LP is now on p69 and was one that I was looking at, so I'll steer clear. Shame there's no more G0MRF kits. Tony, EI8JK. -- Original M
I have finally found the time to get some (radio) work done here and got my 2nd tower finished and I erected an inverted L, 10m vertical and 30m top rising to 15m at the far end. I still have the "ea
I will try that tomorrow Mal, but I'm almost sure it's bi-directional anyway. The Spanish station to my south would have been endfire and Bristol to my east would have been backfire. Tony, EI8JK On 1
Hi Alan. Last week I hooked up my sig genny to the loop and the maximum signal was at right angles to the wire, so I was expecting receive to be the same. Seems not. Tony, EI8JK Alan G3NYK Yesterday
Yesterday I spent some time playing with different antennae. I started by laying out another wire 52m long orientated roughly north/south and then I shortened my original wire also to be 52m and this
Hi Roger. The soil here is well drained peaty topsoil about 400mm - 500mm deep on a mixture of slate and shale and although I am 500m from the sea, I am 75m above the water. I have no idea what the e
Hi Rik, Yes ... exactly that. The "earth" that I attached to the "earth" terminal on the receiver was a reasonably good station earth and the wire that I attached to the antenna terminal was an 80m l
