Very occasionally Ham Radio operators have the room to erect a MONSTER ANTENNA. In this video we explore the Monster Antenna of ZL3SV - Gary... #HamRadio #MonsterAntenna
As a retired electric utility engineer i can say excellent reuse of the heavy-duty equipment i see (insulators, conductor, and transformer housing). Also from Kentucky K4WSR 73's
Hi Roly, When Gary mentioned the antenna was 320m that way and 320m the other, I nearly fell off my chair. And when listening to the VK station the S meter was on zero and he was perfectly readable. You all stay safe. 73 WJ3U
Reminded me of what an old Ham told me when I was, young and CBing if you want more signal put up more metal. I once visited a fellow that lived next to the emergency area a airport that was 1/2 mile away had outside their fenced runway to use if for some reason if a plane would go past the end of a runway and not hit anything. He had a tower and I challenged him to run some wire a few hundred feet that might have been similar to this great antenna shared here. My thoughts likely could have worked and I would have tried it using 5 ft fiberglass fence posts from Home Depo, even being very low I suspect it could have worked some. Been fun trying anyway and just a wire couldn't have made much difference to a plane hitting it, that would have crossed a highway and still several thousand feet from the end of the runway. Thanks for sharing these unusual and special things of interest!!
After having a look around the place...that antenna is exactly what I'd expect. Very impressive...just like the rest. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to learn more about that balun.
Hopefully i will meet up with Gary again in a couple of weeks and we will talk to him more about that Balun for sure.... stay tuned as they say....cheers
Now my Antenna doesn't look so good, what a fantastic Antenna and more importantly the location!! I think that's a little low for a 33kv transformer on the tree !! Thanks for showing the rest of us how it's done.73 Alex M0KVA
Hi, I watched this whilst having breakfast this morning, and enjoyed it! I also have seen a few of your get together's with calum. By the way I was fortunate enough to have spent 2 weeks in Rarotonga a while ago and now know where PARADISE is, 😄 73 and will keep my ears open on the bands!!
"The Voice Of New Zealand !" Excellent video, Roly - truly necessity is the mother of invention ! - I'm just thinking how this showcases the combination of every Ham's desire for the optimum antenna, combined with sufficient land, and the New Zealand back country entrepreneuring spirit of "No.8 pylon wire" ingenuity, that's spawned this Bad-boy into existence ! And of course no elaborate antenna system presentation, would be complete without the demonstration at the end of your video, where the Kiwis can now listen in, in high gain detail, to make sure the Auzzies are behaving themselves !
Rory, thanks for sharing the marvelous setup of Gary. We still need to understand the balun design. not sure if the thick black tubing hosts some coax (?). Nevertheless this a monsterous antenna setup.
Wow, I was watching this video yesterday and this morning I heard you on 40 m 20db over to my mobile .well done Gary ,I have just built a 160 meter version, hope to hear you again soon. G0RZV Nottinghamshire England. Thanks Rolly.
Holy peanut butter look at the size of that Balun, look at the size of that Antenna Wire, look at the size of that Coax !! ZL3SV don't play ! When he goes in on something. He goes in BIG ! What a setup. 2010 foot antenna WoW ! Thank for the look Roly. Now let me go see if I can find me some power line cable;) 73 Joe
Wow that is a beast! Wonder if my apartment manager would notice me running some lines to the trees in front of our property! Stay safe, cheers de ZL2TOY
"Oh I just have a dipole thrown up in the back yard." Yeah! Dang!! That is what you call an antenna! I thought it was a power transformer for power. Are the toroids wound with winch cable?
@@ZL1BQDRoly Woops, Please remove the boot, I think it may be stuck between my teeth. What was the old adage,, something about ensuring brain is engaged before operating mouth. I was thinking it was you and was having a bit of a dig, please forgive.
Are there any drawings of the layout? I see 320M downhill but does the other 320M also go downhill? all in a straight line or is there an angle at the feed-point? Thanks Hang on have i got this correct? The open wire is 10mm so. 75 x 0.001 = 0.075M or 7.5cm his spacing looks a lot wider. Is this because his antenna is not 600 Ohms? Would be nice to see this antenna on a vna to show how it was all matched up. I love the low noise level, how much of that is just doe to location? Interesting that it does not pick up on the solar inverter.
I haven't seen any drawings from Gary on the layout but from memory it was in a straight line and slightly inverted "v", closer to being a flat top rather than a full on inverted V
So it seems the answer to noise is more antenna. I'll check with the home owners association and see if they will go for it. Perhaps I can convince them that it will protect them from Gamma radiation.
It covers all bands beautifully Ron and any SWR is taken care of 100% with the tuner in the Linear. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pje8Xsr5Byw.html ...Cheers
@@ZL1BQDRoly Friend of mine (now SK) lived on 10th floor of 10 story block. All his antennas on the flat roof. For contests we put up a sloping Quad for 160m, remote ATU on the roof too. Then one year we went crazy, put 2 Quads, one to the East, the other to the West and switchable. Did the CQWW 160m, worked all Continents on the Saturday, then again on the Sunday. It was a brilliant set up, but could only have it out temporary for the contests. Happy days. 73 de GW8TVX
@@MatFarringtonInfo There is quite a large drop off each side Mat... bit of a Camera optical illusion going on I think. It is certainly not flat top bay any means...
