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| This picture shows the first 70 feet (21.3 metre) of pvc insulated wire wound over a 2 inch (50mm) pvc conduit.
The length approaches 5 foot six inches! I've used guy ropes (tent) to support the pipe. The base is bolted directly to an earth stake. The wire and the earth stake
feed a bnc socket near the bottom which is used for the cable termination.
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| The other 70 feet of cable goes up the spout, across to a nylon rope support about 12 feet high and diagonally across the yard
to the same at the other end. The wires in the background are 3 phase high tension cables, out in the street at about thirty odd feet. This antenna really does work.
It is flat across the band and well worth trying. A bit more vertical height would possibly make this better.
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| Since putting up the flagpole and feeding the end of the wire to the top (getting more height) this antenna has performed much better.
It has consistently had a low vswr over the last few months (wet winter) with excellent signal reports on transmit and low noise levels on receive.
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