[TowerTalk] SteppIR gain - Two Feed Lines

[Joe Subich, K4IK]

Lee writes: 

> Two feedlines to the SteppIR is not a bad idea, but
> would take some engineering.  Have one fiberglass
> tubes for 40 through 10 on the driven element and two
> reels for belerium copper strips in two different
> reels.  When you go to 40 meters....the usual beam
> strips would go all the way in...and then the 40 to 10
> dipole goes out from a different set of reels out the
> same fibreglass tube using a different feedline.

Interesting to contemplate ... more difficult mechanically 
and more expensive than a relay to switch the matching 
transformer which SteppIR have rejected because of 
concerns with reliability. 

73, 

   ... Joe, K4IK