Really good video Tim was the extra inspiration I needed to try my EFHW for 80m in my compact garden... one trick I did use to avoid to an acute angle on the bends was to use a T-piece on the apex point and sleeve the wire keeping the bends larger than the 90 degrees by cutting off the sharp corners ...thank you again ... it works too👍👋

Hi Tim, Just subscribed and clicked the bell. Nice use of that limited space. I have about 1/3 acre on a corner lot that is somewhat square. Looking forward to hear how it performs. Stay safe. 73 WB3BJU

Great video Tim. Glad to have been directed to your channel. 73 W2CHZ

Great info for anyone who thinks they don't have enough space for a HF antenna. Big fan of End-Fed. Thanks for posting 73 de M0AZE Mike

I have a garden that's small, patch of grass like a postage stamp, got an EFHW going up to the 3rd floor roof, from a 20ft pole at the other end of the garden, it works well

excellent use of space and another fantastic informative video! brilliant :)

Interesting video as usual and well explained. I'll remember that the angles must be not less than 90 degrees.

Another great video Tim. Unfortunately my neighbours are not quite so sympathetic and would complain loudly about a pole attached to the fence. Fortunately, i can get a pole up high enough on 40 mounted in the centre of my property. 80mtrs is the problem for anything horizontal, hence the development of the so called "Roly's Coil" to go with the DX-Commander :) Cheers

Another great video. Thanks Tim

Thanks Tim. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge.

Thanks Tim. Interesting video as I think about my end fed half wave.

Great video Tim. Really informative. Stu, G7WAY

Good to see mr whiteboard in use 😉 Nice video Tim

Nice, interesting and practical advice. I'd really suggest if you are aiming at new hams that you'd stick to the SI units (or at least mention both feet/inches and metric) mixing between meters and feet in the same sentence is not great and confuses beginners IMHO. So my preference is all SI units OR all old school ancient measurement units like feet inches and megacycles - but only when connecting up your spark-gap CW transmitter for the 131 feet 2¾ inches band! 😁😁😁

Ahh miss your older videos of you in the shed.your too well looked after nowadays lol

EFHW is a great aerial for sure. My garden is 4 metres long, 9.5 metres (house-width) wide, and I have three EFHWs, for 40, 30 and 17 metres. They work a treat, with contacts to Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe on 40 & 30, and all that plus USA on 17, all done using 4 Watts output. Max height is 11 metres on the 40 mtr ant, 6 mtrs on 30 and 5 mtrs on the (horizontal) 17 mtr wire. Nothing fancy, just wire, a good radio (KX3) and CW. No computer in the shack!! Les g0nmd

Same garden width here Tim. Good guide as many will have similar widths, but varying lengths (I know that sounds bad, sorry...) 👍🏻

Thanks for the video, Tim! This just might work on my small townhouse lot. 73 N3ZPC

Childs play compare with persuading the family to let you :-)

Hi Tim Have you tried to do the Ofcom Calculation with this antenna yet. I am thinking of changing mine to an EFHW and have almost the same garden dimensions as yourself. Its the lowest height AGL that concerns me. I can get the middle to 31 ft and each end to 20 ft So if I were to put my 64:1 transformer at the top of the first mast am I right in thinking that it would need a small counterpoise? If so, I could run it down the centre of the fibreglass pole. Do you think that would work? Great video by the way. Kind Regards and 73 Mike G3ZCC

Very good video and I plan to build such a guide. again looking for balun 49: 1 thanks Tim. 73, from yd4fdk Palembang South Sumatra Indonesia

Tried my multiband end-fed on my exsiting masts, no luck, so have gone for a similar setup, 2*Fibreglass and a 30ft mast - should make for an interesting wire.

intresting but for me electrical length minus velocity factor of wire should be left as is,,despite the shape of the antenna,,i would just use tuner to bring it in to reasonable swr reading, with common mode floating about the only really good place to take swr reading is antenna feed point then deal with discrepancies.

Do you think a 66' end fed half wave wire will work vertically. Operator's have been using inverted v-l with great success why not vertical.

Thanks, was just trying to figure out the same problem. Trying to fit a 80m multi-band 127ft end-fed in a 90ft long garden and the house shape sounds like the answer. How did you calculate the height of the middle support just wondering how high it needs to be to sqeeze in 127ft.

Nice one Tim.

Can you tell me what Gain is for an EFHW on 40m ~ PUSHING 10 Watts only placed my attempt below cheers for the video

Many of us are on the third and fourth floors of our flats and can't build large antennas. Do you have any ideas about that?

Excellent, thanks.

Let’s see the performance and distance of contacts.

Tim, have you tried the antenna Inverted V in your garden?

Good video and creative use of space! The thing I worry about with fibreglass poles, is them falling over. If you put them up against the fence i.e. the boundary with next door, which of course is the point of maximising potential antenna length. If the thing falls over, like as not it will land on the neighbours car or greenhouse or something. Guy lines could prevent that maybe but then they have to crisscross the garden. Do you use anything else other than tape to prevent the pole from collapsing down itself? Clamps? Maybe I worry too much? I did buy a 10m pole from amazon, last year. I have used it. It has collapsed once, by which I mean the sections just telescope back into themselves. Do you leave yours up all the time, or take down after each use? Sorry, lots of questions. 73, M6EXF

Great job thanks

Hi Tim .... Just working my way through your excellent videos .... Just wondering what support poles you use / do you have any suggestions re telescopic poles ?

So even if you do a "sloper" with just one pole , and the connecting box a metre above the ground earthed with a copper rod the angle still applies from the top on the pole? The higher the pole not always the best case in this scenario Tim?

Hi tim are your 7m poles longer flag poles with sections removed or are they spacific 7m poles thanks

Sooooooo the fact my doublet bends all over the place helps it work on 80 m ?

People don't experiment enough :-( If the first result on google says no, they don't try it out, or even read further. There's so many variables in "home installations" beyond the aerial itself.

Thank you. a very informative video. Just subbed. KE0RPU

Do you ground the other side of the balun?