Good evening to the weird and wonderful place this is.
I need some help, trying to build a decent Dx antenna on 20m to work VK
have tried a sloper both with directors and reflectors, Currently have up a delta loop.
have also got a gold old g5rv.
Dont have room for a beam
any suggestions.
as I know from experience i'm not the only ham in here
Sparky mate Hi
Can not help much cos I use a Full Size G5RV at 27ft portable.
I am QTHR as G0RBM
Works great with a Yeasu 817;
Best I can do mate
Good DX to you
Fred
hi fred, my detla loops at about 30ft, with the g5rv running above it, sloping one end to 15ft, run a icom 725 with the at 500 autotuner.
the main prob i think is lack of power being currently a m3 (awaiting result from full exam didn't take my 2e callsign as did imtediate exam one weekend then full the next)
still lost !!, but good luck to you anyhow
Dawn
Its over hun and thanks for the pm xx
Love you xx
and I am not a nerd but am over the hill lol
I use all home brew antennae.
I have a vertical for 40, 20 and 12 built from a fishing pole with wire and traps, high angle of radiation from vertical is great for DX but needs radials of which I have two for each band as thats all I can fit in my garden.
I use a wire dipole for 40 inter G - lower angle of radiation than the vertical - and for 15.
I have (but currently not erected) a Hustler 6BTV vertical - this was very good until the wind snapped it above the guy point! No radials needed and can be ground mounted - excellent for small gardens and will take 1500W from memory so no problem with UK 26BdW.
I worked 213 countries with it, got my WAC, WAZ, DXCC etc with that antenna and they go for about £230 these days I think.
This will realy make dawn mad , just come back from walters & staton where they are demonsrating the new 5 band step IR, wish i had the space for one of these (or the cash at 1700 quid)
73's for now
dawn tell ian, i know how it feels not long finished rebuilding one of the clubs linears had to have 2 252b's in it (80quid each)
The NERD finally wakes............
to answer the original question.
I would have said get yourself a beam. But I was listening on 40 last night and an M0 running 100watts into a full size G5RV was working into VK2 for around 20 minutes.
to answer Dawn.
:censored:
And by the way, it wasnt the amp that blew yesterday it was the power supply.
I switched on and thought, that's a funny smell. - I was alone, so knew it wasn't me. Looked back at my radio and saw smoke billowing from the psu. One quick movement and the psu was away from the mains and in my hands smoking like hell as i ran outside.
So if any of you guys got a 25 amp psu doing nothing.........
Anyhow, here, I'm using a moseley 3 element yagi at 18 feet (no dawn that's not high enough) and also a 1/2 size g5rv running full length of the garden.
dxcc count is currently 230, iota 280, waz is 40 and am now looking at the Worked All Norwegian Counties Award, but they just write WANCA on their QSL cards. Do they mean me?
Ian (licensed and proud of it for 21 years)
lol so can not divulge, 
thank you but your still a nerd :lol2:
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