[TenTec] OCF antennas evolution

[Darrel]

The article was called "Everything Works", by Tom Schiller, N6BT, and 
was published in the July 2000 QST.
ARRL members can download it via 
http://www.arrl.org/arrl-periodicals-archive-search .

              73,
                    Darrel, aa7f v.

On 07-11-2013 13:17, tentec-request at contesting.com wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:06:36 -0400
> From: Mike Bryce <prosolar at sssnet.com>
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] OCF antennas evolution
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> Gang,
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> I'll have to jump in here, too.
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> I remember reading in one of the antenna books that some guy, to prove a point, worked DXCC using a light bulb as an antenna.
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> But...
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> Several years ago I homebrewed a OCF dipole with a 4:1 balun and stuck it up a tree. I've had nothing be outstanding results without a tuner. I won't cover 30 meters, but what the hey.
>
> There is currently a large antenna/tower project in the final stages at this qth. One of the antennas I plan on installing is a 260 foot doublet feed with 600 ohm open line feeders
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> Now, I wonder how much of a problem my 238 tuner will have with the 600 ohm line instead of the 400 ohm the tuner had been designed for?
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>
> Mike Bryce, WB8VGE
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