[[TenTec] Opinions on StepIR vertical]

[Michael Goins]

Doc,

Depends on if you want to go commercial or want the challenge of homebrewing.
I used a multiband vertical dipole for a long time, roof mounted at about 25
feet. Used a small tripod on the roof to hold 22 feet of aluminum going up and
used a heavy wire down to a ground rod. Fed the middle with coax (hot up, coad
down, obviously) and it loaded fine on 10-30 meters. If I were to do it again,
I'd probably use feeders instead, as 30 and 40 was a bit touchy to load, and
would not load 80 all over the band. Used LDG tuners at the time to autolaod
the antenna and they worked great.

I run 1 watt here virtually all the time, CW, SSB, PSK, and that's why the OHR
rig wasn't used much by me. The mobile is even 1 watt.

Worked an awful lot of DX with the antenna above and it was unobtrusive and
easy to get together. Worked really well on 10 and 20, a little less so on 15,
and worked anyone I could hear on 30. 


72,
mike
K5WMG
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