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Higgins
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« on: February 08, 2010, 02:35:05 PM »

Do any 365 owners have SSB/Ham aboard?  I'm in the process of installing an Icom 7000 and AH-4 tuner and trying to find out what's worked for others as far as antenna, grounding, counterpoise, noise issues, etc.

The insulted rear stay isn't really an option on the ketch, so I'm thinking along the lines of an end-fed, random wire antenna I can temporarily hoist with the main topping lift. 
Anyway, I can't identify a "perfect" set-up as every configuration I can think of appears to have major draw backs and was wondering what others have done.

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S/V Paradox, #121
1977 Pearson 365 Ketch
Davenport, CA
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2010, 03:28:34 PM »

Wind Tamer had a ham when we bought here. We do have an insulated rear stay antenna, begins just after the "Y", plus an extensive amount of foil tape in the bilge attached to the hull.

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« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2010, 06:27:00 AM »

We have an Icom 700 pro and an AT-130 antenna matcher, but no antenna yet. The workable antenna chioces are limited, but I am leaning toward this:

http://www.gamelectronicsinc.com/ssb.htm
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Abracadabra
Palacios, Tx.
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« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2010, 08:25:32 PM »

Wind Tamer's Backstay Antenna

http://slokat.com/Wind%20Tamer/pics/backstay1.jpg
http://slokat.com/Wind%20Tamer/pics/backstay2.jpg
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