[TowerTalk] 80M Inverted V - CW and SSB

[Jim Brown]

On 10/21/2013 10:17 AM, Richard Karlquist wrote:
> The advantage of this is that you get a really low SWR over the full 
> band.
> Passive matching networks can only give you a mediocre match and only
> over part of the band.  Then you end up using a tuner in the shack
> anyway. 

Yes, this is a really good method if you are willing to go to the 
trouble of designing and building the necessary hardware and running the 
control line. It has the additional advantage of no "excess attenuation" 
in the feedline due to mismatch at the band edges. That excess 
attenuation is not a big deal if you're using big coax (a few tenths of 
a dB).

73, Jim K9YC