[Antennas] I need an idea

Tue Sep 27 18:10:46 EDT 2005

>I have gotten sick of using a manual tuner, whenever I get on the air and
>finding matches, for my G5RV, whatever band it is set to is the
>wrong one it
>seems. Oh, well, it was a way to get on the air, until I could do better.
>>I am thinking about a Fan dipole, homebrewed or purchased hung about 50 or
>60 feet up in the White Pines and Sugar Pines and maybe a second one hung
>from the Hickory to the Big old oak. which would give me NS and EW
>radiation
>patterns. My current rig is an IC 730 but I plan on replacing it soon with
>a newer rig with 160 and maybe getting a Linear in the 600 Watt range. I
>hope to get the antenna up this weekend so I need a bit of advice, as to if
>I am missing a better bet for DX and light contesting etc. Here are the
>specs for my QTH
>>> I am 250 ft up and hard by , less than 1/2 mile from a 13K acre lake, Lake
>Wateree, so what other antennas would require minimal tuning and do better
>with my location, can you think of any? I had considered Zepps and some
>others but it seems like a Fan is my best choice or a bunch of concentric
>loops. Any other ideas? Oh yes I am a handiham and I can't get a tower up
>by my lonesome, so it needs to be wire antennas.
>>Kirk KA4PXK

A fan-dipole works great on two (or three) frequencies it is cut for. Don't
expect multiples to have low swr, if they do you're lucky.
Why not try an ATU? Near resonance (including multiples) they can go real
snaky on the dipole, but most times they work quire well with it. MFJ models
are easy to bypass when working on the resonant freqs of the fan-dipole.
Jack
Va Beach