8 Jan 2020

10m antenna

Since my Par antenna started giving a very high VSWR, I have been looking for a 10m antenna for the next cycle and for Es. Being considered are CB verticals of various types, wire dipoles and my Homebase-10, which is basically a wire halo. I used the latter at my old QTH very successfully, although I cannot get it as high at this location. Verticals tend to pick up more local noise but are good omnidirectional antennas. Dipoles are not so good off their ends. In all cases I need help with erection, sadly.

There is a video showing the Homebase-10 erected at the old QTH. The video is actually about a 500kHz antenna, but shows the 10m antenna pretty well. There are other videos on the G3XBM channel.

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