[TenTec] It's getting cold. Perfect antenna weather for a OCF dipole

[k8mp at aol.com]

 Yikes Rick, you stole my antenna motto. 
Here's an excerpt from one of my articles. It was titled "How to Crack a Pile-up."


Cracking a pile-up on aband for which you have no antenna
 
No worries mate.
One of my motto’s is “Any port in a storm.” If I don’t have anantenna for the band he’s on, I just take a quick listen on each of my wireantennas to see which one he is loudest on and use that one. You need a goodantenna tuner to do that and it’s amazing what you can accomplish in a pinch.



Later, Joe, K8MP




-----Original Message-----
From: Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP <Rick at DJ0IP.de>
To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment' <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 11:25 am
Subject: Re: [TenTec] It's getting cold. Perfect antenna weather for a OCF	dipole

 
 
 
Rob, I'm 100% with you. 
 
I don't recall who wrote that line damning openwire, but he's off in 
theoretical outer space. 
In the practical world we live in, we have to accept compromise.   
Not one in 100 hams has space for 9 antennas. 
Most of us struggle to find space for just one. 
 
I also emphasize your preference for genuinely balanced (symmetrical) 
matching networks (matchbox). 
 
And if that won't work (for instance my current QTH where I cannot install 
openwire through the air), we drop down another layer of compromise and go 
with an OCFD. 
 
As the old sailors used to say, "any port in a storm." 
 
73 - Rick, DJ0IP 
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main) 
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rob 
Atkinson 
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 4:52 PM 
To: tentec at contesting.com 
Subject: Re: [TenTec] It's getting cold. Perfect antenna weather for a OCF 
dipole 
 
>I do NOT recommend the use of open wire line as a band-aid for badly 
matched antennas. 
 
 
This doesn't change the fact that every shortwave broadcast station in the 
world uses open wire line to balanced antennas, usually rhombics and dipole 
curtains, for covering multiple assigned frequencies across HF. 
 
Anyone can use coax for everything and have a dozen dipoles up to cover HF, 
but decades of research, and practice based on physics support the 
successful and efficient use of balanced open line with balanced loads and a 
correctly designed genuinely balanced matching network. 
 
73 
 
Rob 
K5UJ 
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