[Antennas] Antennas Digest, Vol 85, Issue 4 / correction

Wed Feb 16 12:07:48 EST 2011

Correction: my calls are OZ3O (not oz3a) & N2NR 
>> Today's Topics:
>> 1. My thanks ( W8JK antenna) (Henry Mei'l's)
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> Date: 2011年2月16日 08:52:34 +0100
> From: "Henry Mei'l's" <meils at get2net.dk>
> Subject: [Antennas] My thanks ( W8JK antenna)
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>> I'd like to say thanks for the several responses 
> to my request for information about the W8JK 
> antenna. My situation is that I'm restricted
> to mounting removable antennas on my
> 1? m x 3? m metal balcony (top floor) aprox.
> 12 meters above ground level.
>> I experiment with all kinds of loops,
> verticals, shortened dipoles -
> the metal balcony construction, itself, functions as a 
> usable all-band antenna on 160-20 and is 
> a 1/4 lamda on 160 meters!
>> I can raise a compact beam to above 
> roof level with a 4 meter telescopic 
> retractable support. I was toying with the idea
> of constructing a shortened element W8JK
> because of the o.1 lamda element
> spacing. Bidirectionality is not a problem.
>> Henry,
> OZ3O N2NR
>>