[SESprint] Fw: NA Sprint CW KU8E LP

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Since a 130 foot log zepp would be two half waves in phase on 40 meters if you made it 176 feet long antenna would be bidirectional at somewhere near 4-5 mhz.
Then when you start going higher in frequency you would start gettting a pattern like a cloverleaf getting more petals in the pattern the higher you go....

                                  Jeff

> 
> From: "Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj at tampabay.rr.com>
> Date: 2004/02/01 Sun PM 10:52:03 EST
> To: Southeast Sprint Coalition <sesprint at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [SESprint] Fw: NA Sprint CW KU8E LP
> 
> 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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