As the saying goes: YMMV...!
I have Yagi's for 40 through 6m, but for 80m I use 4" spaced OWL feeding the
copperweld about 600 feet away from my house. The spacers for the OWL is
made from plastic coat hangers.
73,
Tom - W4BQF
PS: and tune it with a Johnson KW Match box and sometimes an AT-AUTO tuner.
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8RI
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 8:44 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] remote tuner Vs lumped constants
On 7/25/2013 7:58 AM, Tommy wrote:
> I agree! Both here in south Georgia and in Virginia I had 80m dipoles
> made with copperweld wire. In both QTH's I had storms that felled the
> trees holding up one end of the antenna wire, come down during storms
> and in neither case did the copperweld ever break.
>
> I also have never heard of OWL spacers being eighteen inches?? Where
> the heck did that come from? Typically 600 ohm OWL requires only about
> four inch spacing.
Who uses open wire line these days? It would be very inconvenient here.
73,
Roger (K8RI)
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