We all know he doesn't much prefer my standards so too riddle him with a thousand and one nites would certainly keep him awake at nite. Soon as midnite arrives I want be as prepaired as possible, and one thing i'll need is to listen to other short (or long) wave reactions to what has/had just occured, there won't be no internet( for some reason) and with minimal investment and tools I can be tuned in and turned on at the same time. Plus I can test out different antenna ideas and here is one. A guy says that the near perfect short wave antenna is 140 feet long wire and placed 70 feet in the air. Now I can;t do that but I can get about 100 feet long and @55 feet high. In addition to the main holding wire there are 3 other wires running parallel placed at the 75%, 50% and 25% of the original wire. I started with a sent to my door slingshot from China for $2.95(modified with new rubber, home depot) , and a pinball with 150 feet of string attached. It was tough but once the string was laid out proper I did get off a nice lofter, only on the wrong side of the tree branch, but i decided to run with it. It was my intention to weave the wire to the top and then sling the ball 180, and the second shot being the actual starting height of the antenna. Needless to say I had to chop down some trees to get the string manuevered to where I could safely sling the thing back in opposite direction. I was gettin tired by the time i actually got one high enough and so I called it a nite. Next day after borrowing a chain saw I noticed that with a few more tress down I could now go the opposite direction of the modified plan and not have to sling anything. I simply walked the wire in the other direction jump roaping it across smaller branches and wahla it came together. With needle nose plyers I looped the 12 gauge solid completely insulated ( even the tip with a $3 hot glue gun) a couple times loosely and pulled it to the top of the first shot, I was impress with my luck but if you have no other tress around it would be a eaiser job. Now that I have my main wire in place on the first tree I set to getting my 75%,50%,25%, markings as correct as I can, I only have a 12 foot ladder and that and 6 feet is all I could start with. The other lenths were easier cause they are on the ground. You can see I have used scrap wood and hot glue to keep my wires 3-4 inches apart and stable at the criticial joints where the new wire is added. You can see I drilled holes and slid the wires through them, and the other material is as light as possible and sturdy enough as I hope i need it. I will have a spring tensioner on the other end to give some stability to the swinging trees it will be slung between. They said you don't have to worry about the thickness of the wire, but stranded will last longer with the weather. You need to point the wire in the direction you want to here from, so in GA I want to here Europe and i'm at the top of the landscape and there are no hills but mostly ocean skipping waves that I hope to intercept. I found a good lookin $15 radio at the flea mkt and it only needed a 9v power supply and I have a plug in. In addition I have an extra charged car battery and an inverter to get me juice when there is no regular power. I will post more parts as I construct them.
I had most of the wire from an abandoned solar project a few years ago but I did pay $7 for the spring and another $7 for 50 feetof wire I came up short on and some 50 feet of coaxial cabe they want you to connect to the 4 wires coming off the first trees, all along keeping the pressure off them which I believe I can do, placing it on the tree moving spring tentioner and securing to the side of the tree, with some sort of sail boat contraption that allows the rope to go in one direction but not the other, in theory. The ladder is 12 ft high and the top of the shed is 8ft high if you want to try to judge the total hight distance up the tree, which I think is @55 ft.
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Magnetic Longwire Balun 9:1 for receiving.by Giovanniram222,726 views
can you do litle bit longer video i have seen that roab first picture and you show it 3 minutes
aapoxd 4 days ago
@aapoxd: I think you are referring to the green wire which I slung over a tree limb and tied into a circle. Then I pulled on the wire to tighten it at the top. I didn't tie the knot tight enough and it all came down, that's when I went with the 1/4 inch wire rope to hold the entire string. I can't really make another video because the wire rope sawed 3 two inch limbs off the trees in storms and I took it down to be transported to my farm in New England and raised there in a different fashion.
likeathiefinthenite 3 days ago
Its not up and running yet, so there are no results regarding a simple long wire. Perhaps you are refering to the additional wires added to the main wire, in that case, they are supposed to give one a broader band of reception when recieveing signals.
likeathiefinthenite 5 months ago