[TenTec] Antenna is up, but the coupler doesn't like 160 meters

[Mike Bryce]

jim,

there are two wires, one of each side, that are 131 feet long. they meet in the middle at the support and continue down 175 ish feet into the shack to a 1:1 current balun.

I use 'Snaplock' spacers to make up the open wire feed part of the antenna and that begins at the center support.

so, each side is one continuous run of #14 gauge stranded wire


Mike Bryce
prosolar at sssnet.com



On Oct 15, 2013, at 2:11 AM, Jim Brown wrote:

> On 10/14/2013 2:52 PM, Mike Bryce wrote:
>> The antenna is a doublet
> 
> Please define what you mean by a "doublet."  When I started in ham radio 58 years ago, that was a dipole made out of 300 ohm twin lead, with one side broken at the center and connected to another piece of 300 ohm line that went to the shack.  Is that what you have?
> 
> Or is your antenna a single wire, broken in the middle and connected to the feedline?
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC.
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