FWIW, I have an 80m dipole in an inverted Vee configuration with the apex at
the top of the gable end of a one story section of my house, perhaps 18 feet,
and the ends about 4 - 6 feet off the ground. It's only used for the SS phone
contest; with 1500 watts, it does a decent job on QSOs in the eastern US where
I live.
At any rate, I consider that antenna to be damn low - maybe/almost NVIS - for
80m. Regardless, there is a pronounced 2:1 SWR curve with a bandwidth of no
more than 150 kHz. So yeah, the wide bandwidth sounds really suspicious.
Al
AB2ZY
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Osborne <w7why@frontier.com>
To: Hans Hammarquist <hanslg@aol.com>
Sent: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 12:32 pm
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: 80 meter dipole
HI Hans
It usually works pretty well. During the WRTC contest last week, I was
able to work a bunch of them with this antenna. It just puzzles me why
the SWR bandwitch is so wide. Shouldn't be that way. 73
Tom W7WHY
On 7/21/2014 3:48 AM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk wrote:
> Do you only find very weak signals? If not, try it. I found several parallel
wires to widen the bandwidth. Wound myself a helix once for 10 meter and managed
to make it cover the entire 10 meter.
>
>
> Hans - N2JFS
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