[CQ-Contest] How to start a run

john at kk9a.com john at kk9a.com
Sun Aug 21 16:29:19 EDT 2016


How could this be made into an excellent 20m antenna? It will have very deep
nulls (30dB+) and super high SWR, plus likely high feedline loss.  A 32'
dipole would be a better antenna.

John KK9A

To:	Timothy Holmes <taholmes160 at gmail.com>, cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject:	Re: [CQ-Contest] How to start a run
From:	Steve London <n2icarrl at gmail.com>
Reply-to:	n2ic at arrl.net
Date:	Sun, 21 Aug 2016 10:24:31 -0600

>>On 08/21/2016 10:11 AM, Timothy Holmes wrote:
>>Hi steve
>>To answer your questions
>>My antenna was a 125 ft dipole up 40 ft


Fed and tuned how ? How high are the ends ?
Done right, this can be an excellent antenna. Done wrong, this makes a poor
dummy load.

73,
Steve, N2IC



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