Topband: Looking for user experience: DXEngineering Thunderbolt 160m vertical

[Rudy Bakalov]


P.S. If your vertical has a good set of radials, you will see about 35 Ohm feedpoint impedance. You may want to wind your own unun using Jerry Sevick’s cookbook

http://www.introni.it/pdf/Amidon%20-%20Transmission%20Line%20Transformers%20Handbook.pdf

or buy a readymade 35 to 50 Ohm unun from balundesigns.com

The third option is to build a coax transformer per PA0FRI.



Rudy N2WQ 

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> On Dec 5, 2020, at 8:37 AM, David Aslin G3WGN <david at aslinvc.com> wrote:
> I'm building a contest station and the time has come to make a choice of 160m TX antenna. Looking at DXE Thunderbolt I note that the capacity hat extends to a significant distance down the vertical section. It's my understanding that will shield some of the radiation from the upper part of the vertical. Alternatives like a vertical tee would not have this issue.
> Is my understanding correct?
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> I'm considering a commercial antenna as high strength telescoping antenna tubing is unobtanium in UK.  My QTH is an exposed windy location so strength matters!
> 73, David G3WGN M6O
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