Greetings,
I use a Johnson matchbox with a centerfed 80 meter doublet. I made the feed
line out of the copper antenna wire at Radio Shack and ceramic spreaders
bought from Fair Radio years ago. The spreaders are about 2", maybe a
little more, I forget. Works great but requires careful tuning on the low
end of 80, it actually needs a little more wire on each end. Tunes all
bands and even works on WARC.
As far as low SWR, at one time I chased bad radios for Motorola and the oil
rigs would pinch the foam coax and the first time it rained, the radio
wouldn't work. SWR flat, send a roughneck up the rig with one rnd of a new
coax, feed it to the rig and all was well again.
es 73 de Pete WA5JCI
6 Mtr VUCC#361/672-2 Mtr VUCC#346/190
6 Mtr WAS#490
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> From: Clark Savage Turner <csturner@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu>
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] "A low vswr will kill you ! "
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:28 PM
>
>
> You know, I have kept my Johnson matchbox in my closet for the time I
have
> some space for a longer wire and some open wire feeders. I also have a
> Harvey-Wells Z match up there on the shelf, and, as I recall, it had a
> broader tuning range (and high link / low link instead of bandswitching).
>
> Clark
> WA3JPG
>
>
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