[Antennas] Effective ways to use lots of land, trees and wire?

Mon Jan 19 12:05:52 EST 2009

Thanks for all the great responses. I'll probably try a couple of the 
ideas in the next few months, and let you all know how well things work.
73s, AJ4LL
On 1/16/09 3:58 PM, Roscoe Primrose wrote:
> Is this thing on? No messages in>2 weeks...
>> I've got 12 acres, mostly wooded, lots of wire, and not a whole lot of
> money... I've got an 80m OCF about 50' in the trees now, which works
> reasonably well, but there ought to be a way to get more performance
> outa these trees and some more wire. I looked at rhombics, but they may
> be more directional than I'd want in a single stationary antenna. Any
> ideas on how I can put more wire up and get decent gain without high
> directivity? I could easily put up an antenna that's several
> wavelengths long at 80m, but most of the stuff I've found on-line i
> articles about how to get magic amounts of gain on all bands with small
> antennas...
>> 73s, AJ4LL
>>
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