Building a Portable 20m Vertical Moxon Antenna by K5ACL

There's several on the web, 'The Stingy Ham' has one.. and a few others... thanks for sharing your setup

 

I am the writer of the stingy ham. Haha

What I mean is how someone simply took a thin rope to make an X for hanging the coax balanced down the center. I was impressed. Very simple. I hadn't thought of that.

Not related to the design for mounting. He did this with a wire moxon that was pulled out using just one point at each end, like a hammock. The X In the middle is strictly for holding the coax and balancing it from the middle of the antenna. This way, it takes fewer supports to put up a wire moxon.

I know how to do it, after seeing the photo. Just want to credit the place where I saw it, when I make the video.

 

Ha! Sry I didn't connect the dots there - thanks for your post - was super helpful. Hope to try horizontal eventually!

 

Yeah, the different callsigns confuse. I'd change my USA one to my Korean call, but we're hoping to move in a year or two, and I'd just have to change it back.

 

You're profile pic has to be photo shopped You have a great place to play but wonder if any of that stuff is causing noise in your receive.

 

quite - my thoughts around this are - what about using an endfed half wave matching unit to feed the element at the bottom?

might be worth a try!

 

End fed is always preferable.
The issue is insertion loss in the matching.

 

Finished up my moxon video: