Main Shack Antennas :
I mainly use wire antennas for HF since I like to keep my antennas
stealthy. I have a couple of 130 foot long EFHW-8010 Multi-Band End Fed
Half Wave Antennas made by My Antennas that I use as well as a
Buckmaster OCF dipole. The end fed that I use the most has the feed
point up at about 50 feet and the far end up about 70 feet. I am really
satisfied with the end fed antennas, they seem to work really well and
even though I have them mounted in the clear, the wire blends in well
with the tree line and they are not very noticable at all. There are
some good reviews of this antenna at eHam.com that you can read by
clicking
here.
I also have a Solarcon Imax 2000 vertical for 10 meters , a Hustler
Vertical for 2 meters, a Alpha Promaster Sr and a Gap Titan DX that I
have up on surplus military masts in the edge of the woods.
Here are the locations of my antennas:
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| KK4MES Antenna Locations |
Antennas
- Solarcon Imax 2000 24 foot vertical about 40 feet above the ground at the base of the antenna.
- EFHW-8010 Multi-Band End Fed Half Wave (2)
- Alpha Promaster Sr multiband vertical at about 30 feet.
- Gap Titan Vertical
- Hustler 2 Meter Vertical about 35 feet above ground at the base.
- Buckmaster OCF Dipole for 80-10 meters.
- MFJ 1890 Moxon for 10 meters about 36 feet above the ground
- Cushcraft AR-6 for 6 meters
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| EFHW-8010 End Fed Wire Antenna |
I have the coax running out from the shack to a copper plate with lightning arresters attached to a copper ground rod driven 8 feet into the ground.
I have the whole assembly covered using a fake plastic boulder.
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| Fake Boulder to Cover Coax Connections |
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| Copper Ground Rods and Lightning Protection |
I also have my wire antennas grounded with separate ground rods and line isolators.
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| Wire Antenna Line Isolators |
