[TowerTalk] Broadbanding 80 meter dipole

[Steve Maki]

That's the way I used to do it as well. I had alligator clip leads at 
the bottom end only on my sloping dipoles that jumpered around the 
bottom insulator for CW. Worked fine.

-Steve K8LX

On 8/17/2017 10:43 PM, Ed Sawyer wrote:
> I have a 3 sloper array off the tower to the SE, SW, NW.  They are half wave
> – loaded sloping dipoles that are about 80 ft long with loading coils to get
> ½ wave performance on 80.  I just switch in and out about 2.5 ft of wire to
> make them resonate on 3550 vs 3775.  Its slightly OCF on CW but works like a
> champ.  Very simple.  About 150 khz bandwidth (2:1).
> 
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> I also have a 2 el W8JK style wire beam on 80 to the NE.  There I have feed
> extenders for 80CW vs SSB that I manually swap out.  I also use a remote
> tuner at the connect point of the open wire lines feeding the array because
> the antenna is very narrow banded (75khz 2:1).  That also works wonderfully.
> 
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> 
> Ed  N1UR
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