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Originally Posted by glebo
I'm sure it's just a label, a longwire is a longwire is a long wire, unless it's got a beard and long hair....like the Dutch (well they used to anyway).
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That's what I thought. I was wondering if it was something exotic like a 1.667 wavelength antenna with a terminating resistor.
Outside of school, I think I used a long wire once. I used the old 17% (or was it 19) off center a couple of times, but mostly we used dipoles of different descriptions. My TS in Germany was a former commo guy and taught me a couple of REALLY exotic antennas that he and his former senior commo came up with years ago. Hard to get the hang of but once you got it and learned the take off angles for the different freqs, it was really something. I still have the notes somewhere. . .