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A 14 foot square Antenna for HF bands Take a 57 foot length of antenna wire and place an insulator on one end. Now put 4 insulators loosely on the wire do not secure them.
Secure the wire at 56 feet in length to the first insulator. Now arrange the 4 loose insulators around the antenna at 14 feet intervals, these will be used to secure the
antenna when erected. Now take a
length of 300 ohm feeder, either home made open wire or commercially made ribbon
feeder, secure the feeder to the antenna at the fixed insulator, making sure that the connection is well and truly water tight
if you use ribbon feeder. To erect, you can use
it either in a horizontal or vertical configuration, but you must remember if
used vertically, the direction of fire will be through the antenna, so you need
to know your garden orientation with regard to North. Take the other end of
the feeder and fix to a balanced ATU such as a Z match or one that has balanced feed points.
Hoist the antenna as high as is possible and tune. This should cover
20 metres up to 10 metres. Though
the size is that of a 18 mHz antenna.
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