No. Just coax, balun, wire, balun, coax, balun, wire.Originally Posted by K7SGJ
No. Just coax, balun, wire, balun, coax, balun, wire.
Just FWIW...the pattern of a full-size 80M doublet is probably "cloverleafed" enough by 20M that a separate antenna for the higher bands in a different direction is unnecessary. Been a while since I've seen the NEC plots, but W4RNL did a good write-up on it, including takeoff angles and all that good shit.
But hey, my antenna modeling procedure consists of throwing the longest hunk of wire I can find and throwing it into them yonder trees, and seeing if the autotuner will like it.
Last edited by KG4NEL; 11-14-2013 at 09:03 PM.
Jim
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What he said, but with a manual tuner. By the way, it's BALUM. Don't you listen to 2 meter?
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Or its closely-related cousin, the Umum.
As in "Umum, that sammich is fiiiiiiiiiine".
Jim
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