On Thu, 1 Jan 1998 02:40:28 -0500, "Kevin F. Glynn" <kfglynn@prodigy.net> wrote:
> Please let me know what band your original dipole is cut for and what bands
> you want to work. I'm planning a multi-band fan dipole that I'll be
> feeding with 50 ohm RG-213 and a W2DU bead 1:1 choke balun. It will have a
> 40M bent-leg dipole with flat-top dipoles for 20 and 15M. THis may be your
> answer.
Hi Kev,
Happy New Year to you too! And your family.
I took sometime this afternoon to put up a second dipole, longer but
less than 2 times. Its more like a cross between a long wire and dipole, a
really bastardized antenna. :-) Anyway I put it on the second antenna port
and after some snipping, managed to get it tuned up on the bands I did not
have before. Interestingly, some of the bands which could not initially be
tuned up, could, after I did a few turns of coax near the feed point, a
balun actually.
This other antenna is much closer to the building (steel reinforced
concrete) and seems quite a bit noisier. It tunes up on 10M and 80M but not
160M. That suits me fine. I thought of trying out a fan-style dipole,
basically parallel dipoles but that'd make the antenna really conspicuous
which is something I am trying to avoid with the neighbours here. :-)
I am pretty much stuck to the horizontal plane, being up on the 11th
floor and all. It's hard to find decent anchor points even.
So, there you go.
73 de 9V1ZV Daniel
-- +------------+-------------------------------+ | Daniel Wee | daniel@pandora.lugs.org.sg | | 9V1ZV | | | QRP-L #667 | 9V1ZV@amsat.org | +------------+-------------------------------+
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