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Re: long wire
Dale Putnam
There's a fellow back east that has one, and has WAS with it.
Have a great day,
Dale - WC7S in Wy
"Actions speak louder than words"
From: main@4SQRP.groups.io <main@4SQRP.groups.io> on behalf of Thomas Martin <tem494@...>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2021 8:06 PM To: main@4sqrp.groups.io <main@4sqrp.groups.io> Subject: Re: [4SQRP] long wire Has anyone used the metal guttering on their home if give it a try sometime.
I’ve used one for sometime now using a 9:1 balun had very good luck.
Just thrown out for thought.
Tom
K0amd
On Monday, October 11, 2021, Dr Jim Kennedy via groups.io <phdad_ccm=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: long wire
Thomas Martin
Has anyone used the metal guttering on their home if give it a try sometime.
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I’ve used one for sometime now using a 9:1 balun had very good luck. Just thrown out for thought. Tom K0amd
On Monday, October 11, 2021, Dr Jim Kennedy via groups.io <phdad_ccm=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: long wire
I live in an antenna restricted condo community. I have built a 22awg insulated 35’ end fed long wire antenna into a 9:1 unun and a tuner. I have with 5 watts worked 7 countries and all across the USA (using 80-10 meters) with my Ft-817nd. So yes they do work.
-- *72/73, Doc - K2PHD
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Event: Wednesday Evening 40 and 80 meter Nets - 10/13/2021
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Re: long wire
End fed wires have been my "go to" antenna for years at Field Days and Boy Scout Jamboree on the air, demonstrating ham radio at schools...
A simple "L" section tuner and a wire to a convenient high point gets you on the air. A coil of coax (10-20 turns about 4-5 inch diameter" between the "L" section and the rig tames stray RF reasonably well, but in later years I preferred the line isolator from Radioworks. 72 Carl WB0CFF
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Re: Long wire end fed
K9NUD-Steve
I have an end-fed cut to 40m with an added inductor with about 2M of extra whip. It detuned the other bands, requiring some tweaking. It now tunes 80, but the bandwidth is narrow (as you would expect) and the performance is so-so. My 105' random wire 9:1 is outperforming it so far. Granted, the long wire is mounted higher.
I recommend that you try it. 70 feet is often easier to find than 105 ft. -- 73 de K9NUD
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Send in your SSS Score
John Lonigro
Today is the day after the SSS. As usual, I'm reminding everyone who participated that they need to record their scores on qrpcontest.com, preferably today, tomorrow morning at the latest. I will tally the results tomorrow night and report them on Wednesday morning.
72, John, AA0VE 4SQRP Contest Coordinator
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Re: Long wire end fed
How about adding a homemade coil inductor in your end fed long wire? Use a piece of large gray electrical PVC tubing (UV protected for outdoor use) as the form for the coil. Not any different than the coils used by Alpha Delta, Par Antennas, and others.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 2:28 AM Russell Ferris <ke0pviham38@...> wrote: I’m using a end fed long wire wish I was a little longer but it works pretty good -- Do Something "Nice for Someone Else" today, say Thank YOU.
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Long wire end fed
I’m using a end fed long wire wish I was a little longer but it works pretty good
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Re: long wire
Mike, there’s a lot of confusion about long wire antennas. Many consider an end-fed half wave (typically using a 49:1 or 64:1 transformer) to be a long wire. That’s technically not true. A long wire is deliberately non-resonant, since resonance on any band would result in an unacceptable high impedance. That’s where the EFHW works best, as the transformer can deliver something closer to 50 ohms to the radio.
A true long wire is typically used with a 9:1 un-un transformer. If the length of the wire is not resonant, the resistance will be closer to 500 ohms. A 9:1 transformer can get that much closer to 50 ohms on several frequencies, leaving a value that your internal tuner has a better chance to match. 9:1 end-fed long wire antennas must be designed to be non-resonant on all the bands you hope to use. The math isn’t too tough, and thankfully others have done it. There are several websites that mention the “magic lengths”, but most arrive at the same conclusion: “The magic lengths to use with the End Fed longwire is 29, 35.5, 41, 58, 71 and 84 feet” There are longer lengths as well. I just installed a 105’ inverted L with a 9:1 un-un. It seems to outperform my 6BTV and my EFHW, though the latter is not mounted as high. I’m currently experimenting with the transformer, comparing one with an iron core toroid versus a ferrite core. The ferrite is getting most of the desired bands closer to resonance. It definitely tunes easier, particularly on the low bands. I need to do more testing, and possibly add 19’ to the antenna to get to 124, another oft-mentioned length. I have used a 29’ vertical for portable ops with a 9:1 un-un mounted to the winder, along with a 16’ counterpoise. It performs quite nicely on 40M up. I run QRP and routinely work the whole country and plenty of Europeans on 20M. I’m eager to try is on higher bands as conditions improve. I’m also planning to add 25’ and run it as an inverted vee to see if I can use it on 80M. I would encourage you to go down the 9:1 rabbit hole with gusto. You should also go down the EFHW rabbit hole too. Do yourself a favor and order a bunch of toroids such as the T130-2 for the 9:1 (http://www.earchi.org/92011endfedfiles/Endfed6_40.pdf) and a bunch of FT140-43’s, FT240-43’s for EFHW transformers. You might want to get some FT240-31 toroids too (useful for 1:1 current values). Have fun! 73 de K9NUD
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Alternate Net Control
Ge group
Bert N0YJ and I were discussing the possibility of alternate NCS. If we have a few NCS operators In different locations we could reach more club members. I’m open to suggestions. This is a group subject so replying here is fine. 72 Johnny ACØBQ -- Check out the 4SQRP website at 4sqrp.com
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Re: long wire
I had an Offset Leg Dipole for years, until it came down in a storm. The storm also took down a tree I was using as a support at the far end of the short leg, so I needed a new solution. The only other tree in the front would require me to cross over my house power access line with the wire, and I didn't like that option. After much research, I tried a variation of the W3EDP end-fed wire antenna. I've tried it in inverted-L configuration and straight configuration. I have one in straight configuration now, and it works very well. It's not hard to make, and if you can make the requisite 4:1 current balun, it's not expensive, either. It can be made in several overall sizes, with commensurate reduction in efficiency, but it's still quite suitable. I've always been able to tune it on any band with the tuner in my KXPA100 amp or my KX3. Here are links to all three articles: My other base antenna is a compromise vertical, the Comet CHA-250b. It works quite well for a transformer "resonant" vertical. I don't need to use an external tuner on any band it claims to support. But as a compromise antenna, it's decent but not fantastic on any band. It does what I want, so it's ok. But I surely love the W3EDP variants I've been using. When the storm took my dipole down, I ran a half-sized one to that other tree out front, and it worked well enough to operate through winter. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 73, Gwen, NG3P
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Now: 4SQRP Second Sunday Sprint - 10/10/2021
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Re: long wire
Leon Pulsinelle
No doubt, these antennae are quite versitile. When I was using mine I loved having 15 and 30 available.
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Re: long wire
Robert Harrison <rm.harrison@...>
I used to use a random length wire in the attic in our antenna restricted home in S Calif connected to qrp turner running 5 to 10 watts only. It worked, but not ideal. robert kg6tgi ---- On Sun, 10 Oct 2021 13:24:11 -0700 Mlike McEwen <michael.t.mcewen@...> wrote ----
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Re: long wire
Ryan Flowers
I have used a long wire for at least a couple years. I don't know how long it was, that was kind of the point of it for me ;) I experimented with different lengths, and if a length didn't tune well, I cut a foot or two off and tried again. I used the simple L-Match tuner shown here:
https://miscdotgeek.com/qrp-l-match-tuner-build/ I decided to try a 49:1 unun with an end fed half wave, and I really like it. No re-tuning! I doubt I'll go back to the random wire except for portable use. It's easy to build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jgZic_eREg I hope this helps ya :)
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Re: long wire
Doc,
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I am using a 40m EFHW wire at 65 ft and a toroid. I can operate without a tuner on 40/20/15/12/10/6m and on all the others 160/80/30/17 with the tuner in either my FT-450D or FT-818D. I mostly do QRP @ 5w. Total cost under $25. John
On Oct 10, 2021, at 16:24, Mlike McEwen <michael.t.mcewen@...> wrote:
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Re: long wire
Hi,
I use an end fed half wave cut to resonance at the centre frequency of the band I am using. I managed to achieve 7468km distance with 20w on 3Khz voice from Brisbane to Hawaii. I built a 49:1 Balun for use with it.  
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Re: long wire
Tim N9PUZ
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An EFRW (End Fed Random Wire) is a pretty good antenna. BUT, the length of the wire is not random but it is easy to determine. I use both 35.5 and 41 ft wires with a 9:1 UNUN for portable operation with my KX2 and its internal tuner. I do not have any way to do a really scientific comparison but I make plenty of contacts usually 40-10 Meters. I know several people who use an 84 ft or longer wire to get 80-10 Meter coverage. Here is a link that explains why and includes a list of the best lengths to use for multi-band coverage. The short version of the explanation is you cannot use a half wavelength of wire or any multiple of a half wavelength for any band where you want to operate. Random Wire Antennas - Best Lengths To Use For Random Wire (hamuniverse.com) This may not matter for home use but I find that the exact same antenna length works very noticeably better if you keep the UNUN up off the ground by a couple of feet or more. I find if I tie mu UNUN to a hiking stick or one of those plastic electric fence posts it works really well. You can either use a separate counterpoise wire or a piece of coax so the shield is the counterpoise. In my unscientific application, I've found that shorter coax, say 10 ft or less, doesn't always work on every band. I started using a 25 ft length of coax and am always able to get a good match. In addition to my KX2, I've also used an MTR-4B with an external Emtech Z-match and it works well also. Tim N9PUZ
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Re: long wire
Roger-N0RSR
I currently use an EFHW with the Xiegu G90 and get decent results. However, when I've used the same radio with a linked dipole, I seem to get better results. The G90 has a decent tuner built in but the amount of tuning is drastically different between the EFHW(not really resonant on any band) and the linked dipole(cut/tuned to 20/40m). I recently ran WSPR testing on a linked dipole and a vertical with a loading coil(similar to wolf river coil antenna) at 200mw, the linked dipole hit DX and the vertical didn't. I feel I've dropped a bit of cash on antennas, but seem to keep coming back to speaker wire dipoles connected to a usb to binding post adapter center. -Roger N0RSR
On Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 1:24 PM Mlike McEwen <michael.t.mcewen@...> wrote:
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