Date: Sun, 4 Sep 94 04:30:14 PDT From: Ham-Ant Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Ant-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Ant@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Ant Digest V94 #296 To: Ham-Ant Ham-Ant Digest Sun, 4 Sep 94 Volume 94 : Issue 296 Today's Topics: ant for icom w2a ht Does SWR change... Indoor HF antenna help Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Ant Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-ant". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 3 Sep 94 16:45:41 GMT From: news.delphi.com!BIX.com!hamilton@uunet.uu.net Subject: ant for icom w2a ht To: ham-ant@ucsd.edu Joseph J. Keenan Jr writes: >I have an icom w2a ht. I am satisfied with the ant that came with it (it >is a lot better that the rubber duckies that seem to come with some other >rigs). However, if anyone has upgraded the antenna, I would appreciate >hearing about it (whether a diamond, or something else). >Thanks you. I have an Icom 2SRA and just bought an ANLI RD-78H 2M/70cm whip for it. WOW! What a difference! The standard rubber duckie gave me very little range. Ten miles from a repeater (around where I live, where it's gently hilly) and I might as well have been on another continent. The ANLI lets me hit repeaters I could barely hear before. Trust me: a BIG difference. This antenna is about 15" long and designed as a flexible, rubber- coated whip. That was important to me as I just know that with my two kids (4 and 7 years old) around, a telescoping antenna would last about 3 days before one of them discovered what a neat sword it made and promptly broke it. :-) The ANLI looks like it should put up with a fair amount of abuse. Cost (I phone-ordered it directly from ANLI) was about $28, I think. Regards, Doug Hamilton KD1UJ hamilton@bix.com Ph 508-358-5715 FAX 508-358-1113 Hamilton Laboratories, 13 Old Farm Road, Wayland, MA 01778-3117, USA ------------------------------ Date: 3 Sep 1994 09:05:08 -0400 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!heifetz.msen.com!w8hd.w8hd.org!w8hd.w8hd.org!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Does SWR change... To: ham-ant@ucsd.edu Cecil_A_Moore@ccm.ch.intel.com writes: >I have been challenged to prove that SWR can change radically >with transmission line length, so here is my actual antenna... Bryon Goodman, W1DX, resolved this issue in an 1957 QST article, "My feedline tunes my antenna?" (I think that was the title). You may want to read it. -- ____________________________________________________________________________ jimh@w8hd.org "In the nuclear winter, all sunsets <-- who Jim Hebert, K8SS will be beautiful" said that? ============================================================================ ------------------------------ Date: 4 Sep 1994 00:13:05 -0400 From: gti.gti.net!gti.gti.net!not-for-mail@uunet.uu.net Subject: Indoor HF antenna help To: ham-ant@ucsd.edu Daniel Curry (pineapp@netcom.com) wrote: : I am looking for a some pointers on installing an indoor 20-40 meters : ssb/cw antenna. I live on the top floor and do have a balcony. Please : reply via e-mail on recommendations of articles , books or any other : source. A company called Bilal makes these funky looking monoband antennas that look like bird feeders. They have 'em for all bands, even 160m. Supposed to be just what the doctor ordered for limited space installations. I think their 40m one has 100khz of bandwidth. Call for a catalog - 719-687-0650 . ------------------------------ End of Ham-Ant Digest V94 #296 ******************************