[CQ-Contest] How to start a run

[Steve London]

You should be looking at the K1AR CQWW CW contest results over the past 
10+ years.

I believe that John has nothing more than a center-fed dipole, fed with 
open-wire, and using a real Johnson antenna tuner. His is up 
considerably higher - 80' or so ? No towers, no wire beams.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 08/21/2016 02:29 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> 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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