My Longwire Antenna Setup

A quick look at my Longwire setup
It covers 160m-10m with my ATU
The wire used is from the Clansman Radio system that was used by the British Army.
It has a kevlar center core then steel braid and then coated in a flexible green PVC, perfect for stealth antennas!
Originally one element of a dipole it came with different coloured cable ties on to mark out length for an easy setup in the field.
I plan to use the same wire on my 80 meter dipole project and on my portable project thats now in progress
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[markbeermonster]

I also have a ground mat which is 20 foot by 4 foot chicken mesh which has also disapeared into the ground.

The long wire tunes 1.1 across all bands from 160 meters to 10 meters.

It out performs my hustler and is not much diferent to the performance of my dipoles.

Hope this answers your question

73 and good DX

M6RKY

Marky

[nakedfaves]

I used to hang with a guy whose stepfather was into ham radio a bit. I told the stepfather about some of the things that I used to listen to and he once told me a of story he heard or read about.

There was some lady in Germany who built a homemade 1500 METER long longwire antenna.

I told him that it is physically possible, but theoretically unuseful.

[ColFingers]

Back when I playing with radio I used to get me long wire up high, etc etc. A relative who had been an army lad came out on a field trip. I started to set up the long wire. "What you doing?" "Getting it up high." "We tossed them on the ground in the army. Try it." Sure enough, on 80 metres the long just tossed on the ground seemed to work as well as a dipole that took 5 times longer to rig up.

[jimtylee]

Over the years i have put up all manner o hf aerials...the one i settled on 15 years ago was a doublet 75 feet on each leg.....use this on my clansman vrc321 with auto atu..........outperforms every other aerial i have tried............ JIM tYLEE

[markbeermonster]

@dpsdoeo I made a video for you today, check out my latest video called "Improved Long wire Antenna position with LDG 4-1 Balun"

M0VST

[markbeermonster]

@dpsdoeo If I disconnect the balun from the earth/counterpoise array then it does not tune well, equally if I disconnect the earth from the atu it also does not like it.

[markbeermonster]

@dpsdoeo I use a Palstar AT2K to do the tuning, but via an LDG 4-1 balun just outside the shack to reduce RF in the shack

[dpsdoeo]

@markbeermonster Also what tuner do you use? Is it a tuner or a coupler?

[dpsdoeo]

@markbeermonster What if you did't use grounding at all? Will this setup work?

[battlestarone]

try a delta lopp antenna,you have a very large garden,would fit in no bother,and you will get much less ground noise and qrn ,the long wire i found very noisey and rf in the shack was a problem,look into a deltal loop type antenna,you wound look back.