Thank you all for many good thoughts!
Vytenis
LY5T
On 2015.03.28 03:07, WA8JXM wrote:
On 26/03/2015 15:12, LY2KZ wrote:
s there anyone who has had experience with fan dipoles? What should I
keep in mind before starting to build? Yes, tuning perhaps will not
be very simple, but hopefully I will manage.
How far apart wires should be? 10in OK?
Should all center conductor legs go to the same side or vary left -
right - left
My first novice antenna was a 80/40(15) fan dipole over 50 years
ago. I currently have 160/80 and 40/30 fan inverted vees in the air
and will probably add 60 and 20m soon.
Some designs use twin lead or ladder line for the antenna wires
therefore about an inch apart. Other designs have the wires going to
separate supports or hanging from the longer wires. It really
doesn't make much difference. My 160/80 wires go to different end
supports, but the 30m wires hand from the 40m wires.
The only real drawback is that there is some interaction when pruning
the wires. I have had as many as four wires suspended from each
other and that becomes a bit more touchy.
Ken WA8JXM
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