What is a Long Wire Antenna?


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This is post 2658 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas.

If you need a cheap, easily-made antenna for ARRL Field Day or for your next portable operation, please consider the three examples discussed by "The SmokinApe."

In this video, we examine the pros and cons of Long Wire Antennas, Random Length Antennas, and End-Fed Half Wave Antennas.

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What the Heck is a Long Wire Antenna ?- Ham Radio In this video we discuss Long Wire, Random Wire and End Fed Halfwave antennas for Ham or Amateur Radio. Please leave any; questions, comments, suggestions or recommendations below! Please consider supporting TheSmokinApe Channel on Patreon Here: https://www.patreon.com/TheSmokinApe Links to products in the video: https://www.amazon.com/shop/TheSmokinApe As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Links from the video: http://www.arrl.org/grounding https://www.hamuniverse.com/randomwir... https://palomar-engineers.com/ferrite... Check out my Antenna Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Check out my NanoVNA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... If you liked this video you can see more like it here: http://www.youtube.com/TheSmokinApe You can also follow me on Twitter and Instagram: http://www.twitter.com/TheSmokinApe http://www.instagram.com/TheSmokinApe Thanks, TheSmokinApe

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Aloha es 73 de Russ (KH6JRM).
 

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