Do you only find very weak signals? If not, try it. I found several parallel
wires to widen the bandwidth. Wound myself a helix once for 10 meter and
managed to make it cover the entire 10 meter.
Hans - N2JFS
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Osborne <w7why@frontier.com>
To: towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 12:46 am
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 80 meter dipole
The coax run is about 90 feet or so - maybe 100. One other thing - the
wire I am using is some CAT 5 cable and it has 6 wires in it. I just
stripped and wrapped the wires on the end where I hooked the coax and
the other end also.
The coax I am using is some I got at the local Good Will store here. It
is brand new, still on the roll, Amphenol TFC-T10 coax. There was about
1/3 of the roll left and cost me $6. 73
Tom W7WHY
On 7/20/2014 9:02 PM, Wes Attaway (N5WA) wrote:
> It looks like you have a lot of loss somewhere in the system, unless you
> have a really long coax run.
>
> If the run is only 100' or 150' then I don't think you would see such a flat
> SWR curve unless either the coax is damaged or there is some other lossy
> element in the system.
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