tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post5730752186230009001..comments2024-03-26T20:17:30.126-07:00Comments on Every Blade of Grass: Simple, Expedient HF Antennasdrjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-60141005042005815172012-04-10T12:19:58.336-07:002012-04-10T12:19:58.336-07:00I *have* an autocoupler at the base of my vertical...I *have* an autocoupler at the base of my vertical.<br />More here: http://every-blade-of-grass.blogspot.com/2009/11/hf-vertical-installation.htmldrjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-4723863225317200632012-04-10T11:29:55.153-07:002012-04-10T11:29:55.153-07:00Are you willing to put up with an autotuner? LDG ...Are you willing to put up with an autotuner? LDG and MFJ produce cheap, effective tuners that make this much less difficult. I have an off-center fed dipole, cut for 40m, that tunes from 40 to 6m with the common (3:1 limit) tuners built in to radios (and my Icoms have always worked well beyond the stated 3:1 limits). I took an 18 MHz dipole on a trip a while back. Tuned all HF bands, with and LDG autotuner, with varying degrees of effectiveness.SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-75010742430413077172012-04-09T14:20:53.122-07:002012-04-09T14:20:53.122-07:00Yeah, I do, too!
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These will be easy-to-build a...Yeah, I do, too!<br />;-)<br />These will be easy-to-build and deploy ones that you can make out of "whatever" you have laying around.<br />I've made both dipole and vertical antennas from scraps of extension cords that I dug out of the trash. Just about any copper wire will do.<br />Someday I'll write up something about the time a buddy of mine and I literally loaded up a wet string on 14MHz.<br />It was wetted with salt water, but still, it <i>was</i> a "wet string"!drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-50750339410168274222012-04-09T14:07:53.536-07:002012-04-09T14:07:53.536-07:00LOL, I know ALL about field expedient HF antennas....LOL, I know ALL about field expedient HF antennas... :-)Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.com