> Debra simple and cheap inverted V can be made from a
> roll of speaker wire and
> the chassis connector from an old radio. (female
> PL-259 jack)
> 70 feet of twin-lead speaker wire can become two 70
> foot legs of the dipole.
> Each leg would then be soldered to the chassis
> connector,one to the centre and one to a mounting
> hole,to give a `live' and `ground' leg.
> Fed with 50 or so feet of co-ax and your all set.
> I had this for 80m when I first go HF a few years
> back and it worked fine.
It will undoubtedly work even better when you add a coax balun between the
legs and the coax. A roll of RG58 will do. The dimensions of the roll are in
the Arrl antenna handbook.
73's de David on4bds
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