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> I’d take it every time over the commercial stuff with funny matching devices
> and impressive names.
Funny that you'd think those who don't like the OCF design would instead be
touting "commercial stuff with funny matching devices and impressive names."
Home-made dipole, home-made choke. Fan dipole if needing more than one band. Be
quieter, won't cause RF problems in the shack, and just as cheap as an OCF.
As for feedline radiation helping with DX, consider a low OCF is going to have,
by itself, a similar take-off angle as a low dipole. So if it's the vertical
portion doing the work on DX, why waste the energy being radiated into the
clouds by the horizontal component?
Why not just build a vertically oriented antenna by itself and have all the
energy going to DX?
Again, doesn't need to be "commercial stuff with funny matching devices and
impressive names." A wire dipole, oriented vertically, with bent legs if needed
to accommodate for height, fed with a home-made choke, which can be as simple
as eight turns of RG-8x sized coax through a biggest clamp-on, would work well.
You can put up almost anything as an antenna and you will work stuff. That by
itself, however, doesn't mean it's the best you can do for the money and for
your situation.
If something works for you and you're happy with it, then by all means, all the
power to you.
Learning about the downfall of your design doesn't hurt, though, does it?
73, kelly, ve4xt
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