Jerry,
Thanks for that. I have been looking at that antenna and have been
very tempted to try it. Only the price tag caused me to hesitate
but I think you just convinced me.
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73, Rich - W3ZJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tentec@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-tentec@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Gerald C Totten
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 9:38 AM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Broad Band Antenna
>
>
>
> For the last four months I have been using a B&W
> broad band folded
> dipole fed with 50 ohm coax. The antenna feed point is
> at 30 feet and
> the ends are a bit higher. The SWR varies from 1:1 to
> a little over 2:1
> from 3.5 to 29.7 MHz. The OMNI 6 ( and CORSAIR II )
> seem to be very
> happy feeding it on any band but I do have a TEN-TEC
> 238 tuner in line
> and can adjust it for a 1:1 match on any band if I want
> to take the time.
> This antenna comes with it's own 12 to 1 balun and
> compares very
> favorably with my Butternut HF-6V and Cushcraft R-7
> with the advantage
> that it is very broad banded.
> Anyone interested in this antenna can check out the
> U.S. Patent.(
> #4,423,423.) And I hope this is not too much off topic
> because it
> compliments the features of my TEN-TEC station very nicely.
>
> 73 and a nice weekend to all,
> Jerry K8JRO
>
>
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