100 Watts and a wire ....

I stumbled on to the 100 Watts and a wire page a few weeks ago on FB, I have been following it now for those few weeks and I am so pleasantly surprised with this site. It is so very cool to see posts from new hams that are excited about building antennas, working DX, getting WAS and overcoming CC&R restrictions ... I am so happy to see all this enthusiasm.

Most of you will excel and pass me by with an Extra ticket I am sure, I have been an Advanced class for 30 years, if you do not know what that class is do some research....Above General below Extra...and still FUN !! I hope you all climb the ladder and enjoy all that this hobby has to offer.

I want to pass on another CC&R antenna that may be of some use to some of you. I have used this antenna stationary mobile on FD and now from my home QTH as a way to get on 30 Meters. My random wire fed with the same UnUn described below just don't like 30M....Hummm you know how it is.

This antenna uses a JacKite pole found on line, search Jackite pole in Google, they come in several lengths, I have the 30ft model. I simply add the appropriate length of wire fed with the 9 to 1 UnUn and let her rip, the pole is a 4ft tube that easily extends to 30ft. EZ up and down so up at dark down at QRT time. 23 feet of wire works 10-40m very well, 40 m works best with a 23ft counterpoise. but not required for the higher bands.

The UnUn, I have built many of these and you can too....

The core is a T130-2

The pole is lite weight and can be mounted in many ways, we have used Velcro straps, pipe clamps, and Zip Ties your choice. The photo below is my friend Tim KD7WD using this antenna attached to a fence post with Velcro straps.

This is a shot of me operating stationary mobile FD with the pole attached to my Jeep.

Well I hope you will give this a try, a great portable antenna and a good nighttime stealth antenna from the dreaded HOA. feel free to contact me @ dek7jan@gmail.com Best 73 Jim.