>>I use 3 "vertical slopers" around the tower. I believe it was
>>originally written up by K8UR, and is in the ARRL Antenna Handbook
>>(mine's about 10 years old, don't know if it's still there) as a 40m
>>antenna, using 5 slopers.
snip
>>The wire is fed
>>with a 3/8 wave of coax (I used RG8X) to a relay switch box.
I'm planning on putting one of these things up in the next couple
weeks.
What's the concensus: Use a 1:1 balun at each feedpoint or will that
screw up the inductive loading of the 3/8 wave stub (theoretically not).
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