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I'm slow, too, but it's old age.

Let's say your got into your Concord jet and flew to the Southern USA. There you ran into your shack to work those conditions you saw on the QTH Europe map. Alas, they aren't there... why, because the atmosphere isn't the same everywhere at a given moment, and the conditions are different...

I use the one that when I turn on my radio if I hear people I've got propagation, if it's silent, I don't have propagation. Never used those maps, but it seems to me that if the colors represent varying conditions it makes perfect sense that they would change based on where you are at. There...

In the attached photos you'll see two different styled baluns, both 4:1 transformers. I do not recall the mix of the two sleeved toroids; I built it 3 or 4 years ago to use for a low band 5:1 (it worked out being a 4:1) as the feedpoint transformer for a loop on the ground receive antenna...

I went by the MoxGen dimensions. I left the spacing alone and adjusted the driven wires and reflector wires proportionate to each other.

Long ago before I bought the analyzer.

No. By the time I got an analyzer I had moved on to other builds. I would use the analyzer for future antennas of all types, including Moxons.

Marconi, you once shared this. I hope it uploaded. If not, I emailed it to you.

The question is simple, and geared to my way of thinking. I am always less interested in hieroglyphics, and more interested in what did you do and why YOU chose that one. And, of course, did it work and how well. Especially in multiband antenna use. Making baluns and ununs isn't difficult, but...

Actually, so is mine, although she doesn't talk on the radio. It was just an old project that had served its time and she had patiently waited for the right moment to request me remove it.

Wouldn't higher first mean 6>10>12>15>20, etc..?

Do your radios and gear make good sweet tea? She's been very patient, twelve years of the thing and I still have other options. There's 65' of tower waiting to be put up.

Go deeper into the thread. There are numerous photos along the way.

12 years ago I built the tip over mast discussed in the link below. It never failed me, and saw many fun hours of homebrew antennas mounted or attached to it. However, a couple weeks ago my wife and I stood in the backyard and she once again quietly said, "That pole is an ugly and I wish it...

My first HF antenna after getting my ticket was a fan dipole. Due to my lot size it barely fit the 80m lowest band wire with a bent shape. I got it working, but it was an ugly beast that looked like the back yard had experienced a giant spider invasion. I took it down, put up a nonresonant...

It certainly looks good, and that counts for something. Who knows, you might can sell them for $159 each on eBay.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, however, I did not build but two fan dipoles since that question. They were both mounted vertically, and one cut for the 2m, 1.25m, and 70cm bands, the other for 1.25m, 70cm, and GMRS bands. I just cut them to standard length, put them together, tried them to...

Well. Someone is actually standing by there. Called from NW Arkansas in the mobile and made a good contact with 852 out of Las Vegas, NV. PS. @Hairball What do you do about those hairballs. I suggest some detangler and a twice per week comb out. Works on my pups.

Not anymore...

I used to build 2 element 11m yagis using a delta match to a 4:1 transformer at the coax connector. Once I began experimenting with the Moxon antenna I never built another 2 element yagi.