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Re: [TowerTalk] 80 meter dipole

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 80 meter dipole
From: David Robbins <k1ttt@verizon.net>
Reply-to: k1ttt@arrl.net
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 06:27:42 -0500 (CDT)
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it could be lossy coax, or the dipole could be too close to the ground or some 
other object that is tuned near the 80m band by accident and is absorbing lots 
of the power.  for instance maybe a rain gutter, power line, house or 
outbuilding metal roof or flashing, etc.


Jul 20, 2014 08:36:54 PM, w7why@frontier.com wrote:

I recently put up a dipole for 80 and used some RG-6 CATV coax to feed 
it. Good news is that I cut it for 3550 and the SWR is about 1.3:1 
there. Bad news is that it stays pretty much the same all the way up 
the band.

Is the wide bandwildth because the coax is so lossy? It is the double 
shielded stuff with 2-layers of foil and 1-layer of braid. 73
Tom W7WHY
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