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

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

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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

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)

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

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

I’m using a end fed long wire wish I was a little longer but it works pretty good

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

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

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

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No doubt, these antennae are quite versitile. When I was using mine I loved having 15 and 30 available.

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

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

Doc, 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

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

Doc, 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

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

I used an end fed wire for a couple of months. I always got good signal reports. It did not receive as well as my windom antenna (signals were lower). Also, it seemed like every other day or at least