@Geojoek

Whatcha thinking about your antenna these days?

@KC8JC

Wire antennas? In this economy? 😉😄

Now that I am mostly done with the home insulation work I can direct my energy again towards finally doing it!

I keep vacillating between two 44' open-wire fed doublets for 40-10m: one broadside to Europe, the other broadside to all U.S. west of me, for Max Gain, or just putting up the longest open-wire fed doublet I can fit between the two tallest trees in my yard which should give me 80m. I'm probably obsessing too much over radiation patterns.

@Geojoek My friend, from a guy who analyzed for 2 years before just doing the thing?

Do the one you can get done alone in one day. That’s The Answer. I promise!

@KC8JC @Geojoek Radiating better than not radiating. Get some wire IN THE AIR then complain about radiation patterns and your gallbladder later. 😜

(You did say 80m)

@Geojoek @Stormgren @KC8JC I know someone who was licensed a year before me who, when I got licensed, was obsessing about the correct antenna to get for HF. He still hasn't put up an HF antenna (this is 11 years later, mind you).

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