Topband: Need Some Help with an HF 2V

[Tom McAlee]

K2GN wrote:

> Tom: Thats' the 80 coil
> The 40 has 10

Sorry, definately not on my HF2V!  Are you sure you are talking about the 
same antenna?  Perhaps the HF6V or HF9V or one with a 30m mod are different?

I counted again.  Indeed there are 17 turns on the 80m coil, and that's 
probably the one I counted yesterday.  But, on my recount I found there were 
15 turns on the 40m coil.  I counted, then counted again!

I took a picture and labelled the turns with red arrows and text: 
http://www.klient.com/hf2v.jpg

Note that the 40m coil is a bit more stretched than you'd probably find in 
actual operation.  I did that to make the turns easier to count in the 
picture.

I purchased this one new in 2003.  The changed the capacitors, as with the 
factory ones the resonant frequency drifted on 80m running 1500w.  I spoke 
with Bob at Butternut and he suggested that NPO doorknobs (with a higher 
heat tolerance) would be more stable.  That did the trick.

So, you might notice that caps aren't factory.  But, the coils are 
unchanged.

73,
Tom, NI1N