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> At the moment I am making a sloper for top band using 12 wires
> interlaced together and connected into one complete circuit withb the
> addition of a variometer. Getting excited with this one!
> Cheers
> Art
>

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Tnx Art, for the reply. I do have spare telephone
wire (4 conductor in a sheath). Have to prepare the
wire. Good luck on the Top Band Slooper.

Wanted to mention, I still use a calculator and
paper to do antenna designs. The computer programs
are great but only as smart as the input's mind
and the program software design originator. Nobody
knows it all when it comes to antennas so the
old proven formulas have held up good enough
for me besides this is amateur radio....not rocket
science, which is similar to picking your nose,
........searching in a dark hole for something
to extract to prove that black holes are not
void!<k5est-2007>

Of all the modern antenna tuners / couplers.....the
variometer is the one thing they forgot to include.
Guess it was just too good with it's less loss than
a tapped inductor.......Grin!

Back to Top Band Helix..........I do have a nicely
working helical/long wire antenna that is working
pretty well. 8 radials are used that are 50 feet
long, each and that is a portable setup. Really
having 16 to 20 radials seems like a good
compromise for a home station.(Sorry guys, I don't
know metric conversions). Next step is working on
a usable multi-band Helical/long wire using
ladderline/ twinlead/open wire feeders....
whatever the term is at your QTH.

Cheers to you, Art........73....Walter - K5EST