Hi,
your experiments will be of great interest to the likes of us who live in a
modern house. (Read for that, a miniscule gardem lol). I bought a 10M pole for
£22 from spratreader on e-bay. The only problem is that it is tapered (in order
to collapse) therefore the amount of wire it takes is reduced by this. I have a
vertical from Sandpiper wh I think are first class and if your experiments work,
I will order 10 metres woth. Could you please let me know the diameter of pole
used.
Many. many thanks.
Ron GW1HIN


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> Good to see that there is some interest with using a Fishing Pole type
antenna. I posted some pics on this site back in May of the
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> I have also made a 10m fishing pole antenna complete with a DC-Grounded
matching transformer to multiband the antenna & hopefully reduce background
noise level.
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> This antenna is still work in progress & I will post more details & pics
when I develop the antenna more . I still have different wire lengths to
experiment with. This sort of antenna should work well with around 120' of wire
, although it is my intention to try & make it work to some extent using 66' of
wire . This would be 33' vertical & 33' horizontal.
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> I will post more pics & a message when I have chance to do so . I purchased
my 10m Fishing Pole from a company called " Sandpiper " . I purchased the pole
at a radio rally & I think I paid £20 for it .
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> I also purchased a 100m roll of 1mm pvc coated multi stranded wire to make
the antenna element. This should be lighter than the 1.5mm wire that I would
traditionally use for Base antennas. Here, I sourced the wire locally from a
firm called " Kingston Cables " . They are based in Willerby, on the outskirts
of Hull.
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> Regards to all & Happy Homebrewing.
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> M0VEY Group Owner .
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