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Wrap the connector joints and the end where the coax enters the connector with Scotch #2228 Moisture Sealing Electrical Tape, then wrap that with Scotch #777 Vynal Electrical Tape, making sure you completely cover the #2228 with the #777.
What you described is a Beverage antenna. They actually have little gain and are not used for transmitting. They do however have a sharp frontal lobe at the terminated end. They are very low noise antennas and are usually used with a preamp.
They have to be several wavelengths long to be...
That's not possible.
According to an EZNEC 5.0+ Pro model I just made the gain at ten feet above the ground on 14MHz is 8.5 dBi. At 200 feet it's 11.1 dBi.
Here are some examples of changing the height of a three element ten meter NBS Yagi-Uda (Mr. Uda was Mr. Yagi's partner in designing the Yagi antenna. Both gentlemen were Japanese.) at 28.025 MHz modeled with EZNEC+ 5.0 Pro:
Let's talk about gain.
Gain can be measured in two ways dBi and...
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