[TowerTalk] remote tuner Vs lumped constants

[Tommy]

As the saying goes: YMMV...!

I have Yagi's for 40 through 6m, but for 80m I use 4" spaced OWL feeding the
copperweld about 600 feet away from my house. The spacers for the OWL is
made from plastic coat  hangers.

73,
Tom - W4BQF

PS: and tune it with a Johnson KW Match box and sometimes an AT-AUTO tuner.



-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8RI
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 8:44 AM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] remote tuner Vs lumped constants

On 7/25/2013 7:58 AM, Tommy wrote:
> I agree! Both here in south Georgia and in Virginia I had 80m dipoles 
> made with copperweld wire. In both QTH's I had storms that felled the 
> trees holding up one end of the antenna wire, come down during storms 
> and in neither case did the copperweld ever break.
>
> I also have never heard of OWL spacers being eighteen inches?? Where 
> the heck did that come from? Typically 600 ohm OWL requires only about 
> four inch spacing.

Who uses open wire line these days?  It would be very inconvenient here.

73,

Roger (K8RI)

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