Random Wire End Fed HF Antennas. Is this a sensible choice for an All-Band Antenna?
29K views · May 21, 2026 · Science & Technology
Comments · 92
@brianfields4479 · 4 months ago
Great video Peter, and a great antenna. 73.
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@Stingmni · 4 months ago
Your presentations are so well done. Thank you.
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@cooldad4 · 4 months ago
My antenna is a 88,5ft end fed with a 17ft counterpoise and a 9:1 UnUn; it works on 10 to 160m! You do need the counterpoise on 80 and 160m! Once again a great video, thanks.
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@Pioneer936 · 4 months ago
I love my antenna tuner tuning my antenna to resonance
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@OzzieKev · 4 months ago
Home made 9:1 unun, 71 feet of RG59 with inner and braid joined, random radials, choke on coax feed, LDG AT-200. I have 147 countries worked in the last 5 years, mainly FT8.<br>Kevin VK2YPZ
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@Robert_Varner · 4 months ago
I'll have to give the antenna a try.
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@GoonyMclinux · 4 months ago
The 206 foot random wire is the goat.
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@jonmcadams5401 · 4 months ago
Excellent video! From my apartment balcony I use a 71' insulated #24 guage stealth sloper, 9:1 unun, low loss coax, common mode choke near traceiver. SWR is 1.2 to 1 or less on all HF bands including WARC bands with Elecraft tuner. From California SSB contacts to Scandinavia, Europe, Mediterranean, South America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand. Worked Japan with 5 watts SSB. Good signal reports on 80 & 40 meter SSB nets. I hope this is useful! 😊
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@Odin412z · 4 months ago
Great video! I want to try and make one of these antennas for myself.
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@adavies6696 · 4 months ago
Love random wire's keep meaning to build a Rybokov, but the random wire is workign so well multi-band i just get caught up in chasing all the DX
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@rogerharrison8355 · 2 months ago
Excellent video thanks so much.
@O_Outis · 4 months ago
I have one and it works great, love it! Wire goes over my back garden (in housing estate in England). 10.82m of wire coming out of a first floor window to a pole at the far end. I use the 9:1 LDG and a 1:1 choking LDG right after. A 5 meter counterpoise goes vertically down to the ground. Simple, low noise, gives me regular contacts in NA, SA and the Caribbean.
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