Do you have a PAR EndFedZ for a particular band, or perhaps instead a PAR EF-SWL? Models for specific bands can be rather narrow banded since they are end-fed dipoles, but the EF-SWL is rather broadband since is essentially a longwire with a 9:1 transformer.
If it is a PAR model for a specific band, you might look into changing the antenna conductor to be 1/2 wavelength of your desired band. For example, if you want to listen to the 6.925MHz frequency, you could try a 67.6' antenna wire instead of whatever length is supplied with the PAR transformer.
Alternatively, if you have a PAR EF-SWL, then PAR ships it with 45' of antenna wire. It is decent compromise lengh that works okay with the provided 9:1 transformer for a wide swath of frequencies with little directivity on the typical SW broadcast bands. You can try a longer antenna wire, but do not expect much difference unless you start adding multiple wavelengths of wire at a desired frequency/band to increase directivity off the ends.
Now as for your ladderline, beyond just being feedline or bulk wire to harvest for a project, it can be used as an effective impedence transformer for certain types of antenna. For some ideas, take a look at an end-fed Zeppelin matched with ladderline as an impedance transformer, or even a G5RV that uses ladderline as both an active portion of the antenna and an impedence transformer to better match coaxial feedline.
Topic: What to do with ParEndFedz antenna & ladderline (Read 3006 times)
