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Random Wire

I use my random wire on 160, 80, 60, 40, and 30M where the ICOM IC705 and AH705 tuner match it very well. It will also load on 20, 17, 15, 12, 10, and 6, but since I have other antennas for those bands, I seldom use it there. The wire is about 110 feet long. At its highest point in the attic, it is about 30 feet above ground (brick) level. The 20 pictures below follow it from where it leaves my antenna switch at the red banana plug, goes under the shelf to the window sill, out the shack window, in the attic window, through the attic, out the back attic window down the wall of the house, around a corner of the house where it ends fastened to the back door frame. Pretty much all of the antenna is shown except the section between the shack window and the attic window, and also part of the section going down the back wall of the house. They just blend in too well with the brick wall to get a good picture of them there. The last couple pictures have red arrows to show where the antenna fragment there begin and end since the antenna there is also hard to see.