[TowerTalk] Re: Extended Double Zepp Problem

[Eric Gustafson]

Tom,

Why not leave it the way it is and feed it with a tuner?

73, Eric  N7CL


>Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:56:33 -0700
>From: "Thomas R. Williams" <n2cu@buffnet.net>
>
>Hello again,
>
>Sorry for the bandwidth...but...I just added 16' to each leg of
>my 80m EDZ making it a total of 185' on each side. This
>calculates to 656/f; much longer than expected. The SWR at the
>end of the ladder line went to 1.6:1 which was
>encouraging. However, the antenna seems to be very narrow in
>bandwidth. The 2:1 limits are slightly less than 100 kHz.
>Cutting 6" off of the ladder line didn't seem to change the SWR
>any noticable amount, so I hesitate at trimming any more.
>
>Running ladder line back to the shack is out of the question; my
>tower sits 220' back from my house in between my property
>lines. Running ladder line on supports smack dab through the
>middle of the back yard is not something my wife can deal with,
>nor me for that matter!
>
>At this point I may just give up and install 1/2 wave coax fed
>dipoles for each band and be done with it.
>
>73,
>Tom N2CU

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