[SESprint] Fw: NA Sprint CW KU8E LP

[Jim White, K4OJ]

so, extrapolating a 176 foot open wire fed dipole fed through a tuner 
should cover just about any band then...

I will file that away as a potential "other 80 meter antenna" which in a 
pinch could work on other bands...

Did I get the gist right?

OJ



John Laney wrote:

> Bert:  Jeff put up one for us to use M/S in IARU RS last year at my QTH.
> It is center fed with 400 ohm ladder line.  It is fed through an antenna
> tuner which has a provision for that type of line.  It isn't actually
> just for 80 and 40.  It is an all band antenna. Jeff told me that W4RNL
> says on his website that, if you can put up only one antenna, it should
> be this one.  Actually, he may have been referring to one twice this
> length, but we didn't have that much room here.  With the antenna tuner,
> you can tune all bands, but it doesn't get out on 160.  It is a big
> dummy load on 160.  It outperforms my dipole at about 10 feet lower in
> the direction it favors (off the side), but the dipole runs the other
> way and outperforms the zepp to the west.  To the northeast, off the
> side of the zepp, we worked nearly every HQ station on 40 meters SSB
> split running low power and most on the first call.  I was amazed.
> 
> 73,
> 
> 
> John.
> 
> N4CW at aol.com wrote:
> 
>>Jeff, can you describe your 88-foot 80/40 Zepp? I'm curious...73, Bert N4CW
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