80m Inverted L Antenna

Although the radial system is far from ideal the inverted l has been able to gather both local and dx contacts on 80 40 20 15 and 10 meters.

80m inverted l antenna.

80m fundamental 1 lobe 3 39 dbi at 5 40m 2nd harmonic 2 lobes 2 95 dbi at 50. 80m inverted l antenna base loaded for 160m click here to jump to latest news on this antenna my coaxial dipole would just about tune up on 160m but its replacement a standard 40m half wave dipole wouldn t. Priority requirements were a single antenna system that is unobtrusive and. End fed 80 10 meters hf multi band antenna 1 5 kw 9 1 unun with kevlar wires.

Given the small size of my garden even a long wire contorted with lots of bends wouldn t easily fit. It has worked well for qpr camping outings and emergency preparedness as well as fixed base antennas. For a compromised antenna system it performed as well as my 80 meter inverted vee. In the fall of 2007 i was able to install my first amateur radio tower while this certainly was a huge improvement over my humble butternut multiband vertical my new tower had a major shortcoming a lack of antennas for the low bands.

This is an end fed long wire wire antenna that will cover all bands from 80 to10 meters including t. Reasonable performance on 80m 40m and 30m bands. This article describes a simple inverted l for the hf bands. Compatible with the icom ah 4 tuner.

Shown here is an inverted l with its long leg sloping to the ground. 160 meters and 80 meters. The w7lpn version of the inverted l multi band 10 80m antenna see latest update 03 30 09 electric fence wire i prefer electric fence wire for all my latest antenna experiments. I keep a 50 meter.

How to build an inverted l for the low bands 40m 80m and 160m an inverted l is just like a vertical apart from the fact that instead of going straight up like a tuned quarter wave it turns 90 degrees somewhere.