Base Long wire antenna for cb?

[BJ radionut]

try this

 

[Tweetybird]

Mine is oak wood

The stand off is oak. The center is carbon fiber I think.

 

[Tweetybird]

If that is true, then something is wrong with the way you did your Doublet. The Doublet if correctly done should have much greater "capture area" than the CB antenna on most shortwave bands.

That's what I thought too. I was kind of disappointed when it didn't get better being hooked up wrong will do it.thanks for all the help

 

[BJ radionut]

Used wood!
I'd throw a couple of coats of Marine Spar Varnish on them.
The wood when wet and untreated can become conductive.

 

[BJ radionut]

carbon fiber

Carbon fiber does conduct electricity. It is not as good of a conductor as most metals, but if you build a structure with it, you will find that its electrical conduction can easily contribute to galvanic corrosion, by electrically connecting dissimilar metals. Or wet environment galvanic current carrying.
Carbon fiber is NOT an insulator!

 

[Tweetybird]

Center

 

[Tweetybird]

End

 

[BJ radionut]

I switched to coax and pl259

solder shields together and uses centers to come thru and connect to screw terminals

 

[Tweetybird]

solder shields together and uses centers to come thru and connect to screw terminals

Do you look the two ends of the ladder

 

[Tweetybird]

Do I loop the ends of the ladder and do you solder shield in the house too?

 

[Tweetybird]

23 paper caps in this thing

 

[Tweetybird]

solder shields together and uses centers to come thru and connect to screw terminals

solder shields together and uses centers to come thru and connect to screw terminals

Loop the ladder line at coax transition?

 

[Tweetybird]

That depends on how you connected the ladder line to your receiver. How did you do that?

The wrong way I fixed it.

 

[Tweetybird]

http://www.vintagemanuals.com/manual/Lafayette/HE-80

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I will buy as soon as funds become available,thank you.

 

[Tweetybird]

Well thanks to bj radio nut my antenna rocks!