Recent content by marsofold

An update on my 20M half square antenna: it seems to be working exactly as designed. And that is a problem for me, since I now believe that the mountain ridges around me are blocking most of the main low angle vertical lobe. I cannot hear anything within 300 miles of me, so there is nil high...

My antenna is grounded at the transformer. Might be a while before I post here again.

When I read this, I know that the poster did NOT read the link I provided, since the link proved the exact opposite. Kinda of a bummer getting this on my first post. I'm not going to argue over labels, whether somebody wants to call it a dipole (not me), a half wave, or a half square. Call it...

I strongly disagree about end feds being inefficient, but will not argue about it. Half square antennas have been around for awhile. I first learned of them from on4un's low-band dxing book. http://on5au.be/content/a10/scv/scv4.html has quite a bit of information about them, including the...

My first post here so please hold your fire :) I put up an end-fed half-square antenna for 20 meters between two north-south trees near my house at 20 feet up. Used AWG#10 wire coated with heavy rubber insulation from an old spool of wire my former company was pitching out. I expected to have a...