[TenTec] Bizuka antenna

[Ken Brown]

There is at least one email reflector I subscribe to that is so strictly 
moderated that it is almost useless. Many questions are posted and very 
few of the responses are posted. The person who asks the question may 
receive some informative replies. The rest of the "participants" in the 
reflector see little but the questions. I prefer the format here on the 
Ten-Tec reflector, where all subscribers really can be participants, and 
much discussion about various topics can be read or deleted.

If you are concerned about wear on your delete key, get an email program 
that lets you use the mouse to delete messages. I am using Mozilla 
Thunderbird, which has a filter function in the "Tools" drop down menu. 
If your email program has this or something similar, you can quickly 
make a filter to automatically delete any message with the word 
"bazooka" in it, or in the subject line, unless some joker changes the 
spelling..

I use a center fed dipole, and open wire line. It is about 80 feet long, 
and I can tune it with the Johnson Matchbox on most any band. If I add 
the right length of ladder line in the shack, I can get the other bands. 
I suspect if I were to get inside the matchbox and move a few coil taps, 
I could get all bands without adding feed line sections. It takes a 
whole lot of removing screws to get that thing opened, so I haven't done 
it. The antenna is made from about 22 gauge wire and has survived all 
kinds of local weather (it does not freeze or snow here). If it had a 
balun at the feed point or was made from coax, it would be a lot heavier 
and require much more tension to have the same amount of sag. It would 
also be much more visible and probably not quite as efficient, though 
the loss might not be measurable with any instruments I have in the 
shack. I use it with a Ten-Tec Omni VI or Paragon II.

DE N6KB
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> Can't you think of anything better to do than to tell people what they can and can't talk about? Seriously, what is your problem? I didn't read anything about how every subject needs to specifically please you. A little tolerance is a wonderful thing in this rude world.
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> I will qualify this discussion by saying that I have a Ten Tec rig AND I have used a double bazooka antenna. I'm happy for the discussion. I've learned a lot.
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