[SECC] SS Phone Thoughts

[Gary Breed]

John has a good point.  I used an 80M dipole for Field Day up in
Wisconsin -- max height about 30 ft., with the ends about 10 ft. up.
It generated plenty of action with QRP.  Bill, if you are using a tuner
on 75/80, tune/prune the antenna for direct feed to avoid the losses
of a non-optimum network (tuners often don't have enough inductance
on the low bands).

73, Gary
K9AY

> >
> >* 80m dipole at 35' feet is too low. No one could hear me well. Never did
> >get responses to CQs on this band.
>
> Bill -- I heard you on 80m S&Ping and Your sig was a LOT weaker than other
> Ga. stations on the band (at the same time). Not just contest stns but
some
> of the rag chewers that I know  are running low dipoles.
>
> Before you take it down and start over--- check out your ant, feedline, es
> connectors. I thought you were running QRP.  Also I think you said it was
> 105 ft long---- thats a tad short and may also be adding to the problem.
>
> WA4TT


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