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19-SEP-2013

Testing out the vertical (9/19/2013)

The support pole is a DX-Wire 10 m fiberglass pole. Antenna is fed against ground (16 radials on the ground here, buried just under the sand on the beach). The antenna is configurable in several ways:

1. Wire loop, one half up the inside of the pole, the other coming back down to the base on the outside. Both ends connected at the base, so it's effectively an approx. 32 ft. vertical. Resonant as quarter wave on 40, 3/4 wave on 15 m.
Fed via 9:1 or 4:1 unun at base for 17/20/30 m.

2.Inverted L for 80 m - the external 32 ft of wire is unhooked from the base and pulled out to a support at one side, with an extra couple of feet added to resonate it on 80 m. This photo shows the inverted-L configuration.

3. Same as 3, but with loading coil added to base to resonate on 160 m.

4. Short wire (approx. 13 feet) from base to one of the guy ropes. Used on 10 and 12 m, since the 32 ft. vertical is too long for these bands (too much high-angle radiation). Fed via 9:1 unun at base. The longer loop is disconnected in this configuration.

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