

Why not use more than one radiating element like a fan dipole ? Elevated the radials with 1 meter so that the angle with the radiator was 90 degrees solved the problem. The antenna itself was mounted on a sat mount, 1m AGL. After hours of examening, testing, unscrewing, other bolts I found the “problem”.

Initial tests were good, nice flat swr response, good copy on dx stations, …īut when finishing the antenna a few weeks later I noticed that I couldn’t find the resonance point back.

Removed the coil at the bottom, added 4 radials of a 1/4 wave at 20m and there it was. I was already playing with an old CB-antenna. This works, but the weight of the balun and the span of the whole thing decided me to go for something else. The test setup was a bit changed to a 4 band dipole with 1 inverted V for 10m, turned 90 degrees from the fan dipole. But also here not enough bandwidth on 10m. I figured out that I needed at least 15 cm between each element, the more the better. But the interaction between each element made it also difficult to tune. 5 Wires parallel for each band, fed by a balun at the common center. The next antenna built was a so called Fan Dipole antenna. That, the mechanical instability and difficulties in triming each band was enough to stop this project. But 15m also lacked the necessary bandwidth. Added in total 4 dipoles when I wanted to test it. Finally the first dipole was attached to the big cross. Bought speakerwire and started cutting and soldering.

He says = “Some people use them to make antennas…”. The funny thing was when I asked the sales person if the rods contain carbon fibers he mentioned that I’m not the first asking. I used cheap fishing rods, costing 4 to 5 euro each, from a known sports hardware shop. It is a small antenna and rather easy to build. The ZS6BKW Multiband HF Antenna Revisited.First I tried to build a Cobwebb antenna. Truth about the G5RV Antenna and two other improved alternatives to this basic design". : CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) What I learned from building my own G5RV / ZS6BKW Antenna "Archived copy". Reflections III: Transmission Lines & Antennas Practical Wire Antennas - Effective HF Designs for the Radio Amateur Varney, G5RV in The ARRL Antenna Compendium Vol.
