9 meters wire on a fishing rod and the SGC-211 antenna coupler. Works very well on 80, 40, 20 and 10 meters. We have been testing the setup on the beach at Scheveningen and we made QSO’s on 40m with less then 5 watts.
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Some of my friends were asking for pictures of my HF antenna and my ham shack so I decided to make a video of it since I haven’t uploaded anything to youtube in a while. The rig is a Kenwood TS-120S 100watt radio and the antenna is a full wave 40m loop configured for vertical polarization. UPDATE: Since this video has been posted I hooked up an external 4:1 voltage balun and now it works 80m – 10m no problem. Now to set something up for 160m, 6m, 2m, and maybe either 1.25m or 70cm. 🙂
As test antenna was measured at 22 foot linear using a piece of triple #22 AWG conductor zip cord commonly used for older home intercom by Nutone. The base feed was run 11 feet up on an outside conductor, then returns 11 feet down on the center conductor back to the base and is connected to the other outside conductor that is the full 22 feet long.
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