1600ft Homebrew wire antenna-QRP SSB 5w-Iowa.
Sometimes, radio amateurs get to build an HF antenna on "a field of dreams." Such is the case with Kevin LaBehn (K0KLB), who built a large 1600ft (487.80m) long wire on an open space in the state of Iowa. Kevin discusses his project and records the outstanding performance of this extremely long antenna. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD3J7oP5_CU Here are some comments from Kevin (K0KLB): Hello all... This antenna is not too unusual, but I wanted to get it built before winter and it was a great outdoor learning adventure... I built it to experiment with a horizontal low long wire configuration. This wire antenna is 1600ft long and 10ft off the ground... I was curious about the performance difference between it and my normal 550ft long wire that is 70ft high.. The low wire in the field is just a temporary install and will be removed before the spring field work next year.. If you wan...