[TenTec] "A low vswr will kill you ! "

[n4lq@iglou.com (Steve Ellington)]

I've often wondered why everyone seems to put up 132 or 135ft dipoles fed
with tuned feeders. Since the whole system is tuned, why bother making the
flat-top a certain length? Using a simple 'basic' program from the W6RCA web
site, I calculated that for my paticular situation, a 200ft flat top fed
with about 70ft of 450 ohm line would give me an easy match on all bands
with no super high or very low impedances. The matchbox easily loaded on all
bands but 10 meters was a bit frisky to match so I trimmed about 5ft off the
feeder and now get beautiful tuning 160 through 10m with no funny business.
Steve Ellington
N4LQ
-----Original Message-----
From: Sherrill WATKINS <SEWATKINS@dgs.state.va.us>
To: tentec@contesting.com <tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:44 PM
Subject: [TenTec] "A low vswr will kill you ! "


132' center fed zep.


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