My home antennas -as used today...

[KX4QC]

And who knows what other hare-brain idea comes tomorrow... Antennas are often easy projects to explore, particularly like this wire one.

I get kind words about my HF signal, and generous reports on FT8 etc., so the question always comes up, "what is this antenna, and how much power from the linear?"

No amp, just a barefoot Icom IC-7610 with 1.42 firmware, running DPD https://www.ab4oj.com/icom/ic7610/dpd.html , standard HM-219 mic, and free Linux software for digital modes, RTTY, SSTV and logging. The complete antenna cost way less than a B*ckm*st*r -a fine antenna- and models considerably better.

The main antenna is a 20% off-center fan dipole suspended on glass insulators at about 90', well clear of vegetation. The element pairs are 10G insulated stranded copper https://www.homedepot.com/p/Cerrowire-5 ... /202304645 , half-wave for 160m and 20m, verified with a Mini 1300 VNA https://www.amazon.com/Mini1300-Analyze ... B09KGXL4L3 .

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