Subj : Looking into HAMing...
To   : Frank
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Sat Aug 20 2005 11:37 pm

  Re: Looking into HAMing...
  By: Frank to Deuce on Sat Aug 20 2005 22:06:00

 >    Kinda like the guys that build 80mtr beams! YOU GOTTA WANT IT!

The hard part is getting the right height to be efficient.  Otherwise you 
could build a wire beam quite easily.  Not steerable, of course...

Most way-out antenna I ever saw was a big axial-mode helix for 10 meter 
CW.  The diameter of the helix was something like 12 feet!  The reflector 
was a big sheet of chicken wire, and the entire thing was supported by a 
rope, with the top of each turn of the helix hanging from it.

:-)


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