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Never one to settle for compromised antennas, I thought I'd have a go at "upgrading" my random length with 9:1 unun, and replace it with a compromised end-fed half wave with 49:1 unun and an 80m coil... Here I have stuck two FT240-43 toroids together with epoxy, and then wrapped in glass cloth elect...

It started as a self-test project; create my own antenna as an experiment in learning some basic theory and dusting off some hand skills. I started off with the following main components: In addition, I had an old outdoor heavy-duty junction box which I intended to cut up to make the vertical part f...