[Waverley ARS] 160m shortened vertical

[Adam Carmichael]

Hi Brad,

I had two ideas tonight (ok, I'm probably the only one on the list to 
actually wake up and email a dream of mine at 5am, but I know we all 
dream this stuff up from time to time and it just couldn't wait!).

1. We get a lot of helium, some balloons and 160m of wire and form an 
end-fed.... actually, this is starting to sound too dangerous. That's a 
lot of weight to put up there without support, and a large area it could 
come down on.

Hence my preferred method (so far):

2. I saw an article earlier on tonight about a 160m magnetic loop. Do 
you think we can get a hold of some big enough capacitors? I would 
hazard that if we point it in the right direction we'll easily pickup 
some ZL and maybe even VK0 contacts; if we're unlucky, we might get 
overshoot them and get some LU (Argentina) :)

General Magnetic loop info:
http://home.datacomm.ch/hb9abx/loop1-e.htm

The 160m beast:
http://www.qsl.net/hb9mtn/hb9mtn_magnet_160.html

I suppose the hard part is the capacitors.

Brad Crowe wrote:
> Some time ago, I think within the last three years, there was a 160m 
> vertical antenna article in the AR magazine.
> 
> The antenna was a very much shortened vertical....I think it has a 
> helical / coil section with interesting wire capacitive hat.
> 
> I would appreciate it if someone could find it and copy for me.....I 
> would be interested in constructing it for the Trans Tasman 160m phone contest.
> 
> 73 Brad VK2CEC
> 
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