[TowerTalk] Wire antenna help needed

[Patrick Greenlee]

My OCF dipole is a few years old and is 90X180 ft with the correct 
chokes/baluns. Coax to the feedpoint and coax from feedpoint to off 
center junction.  Performance is on a par with my Hy-Gain Hy-Tower with 
the Hy_Tower winning the race maybe 2/3 of the time and the OCF dipole 
maybe 1/3.  The dipole usually is a little quieter.  A friend 120 air 
miles away has never been able to get good copy on me when I'm on the 
Hy-Tower but the OCF puts me in Q5. I often use my auto-tuner with it 
and that makes my Tokyo Hy-Power very happy at a kw.

YMMV

Patrick        NJ5G


On 3/22/2017 3:05 PM, RCM wrote:
>> On Mar 22, 2017, at 13:49, Joe Subich, W4TV <lists at subich.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I would not recommend the Carolina Windom as I had one literally fall
>> apart due to UV degradation of the PVC DMU (feedpoint) housing here in
>> Florida.
>>
> To say a Carolina Windom is no good because yours fell down, is saying Ford cars are no good because I had a flat tire.
>
> I think the term “Carolina Windom” was given as a cute name in some magazine article, describing someones version of an off center fed dipole.
>
> Made from junk, they fall down.
>
> I have never tried one, so I can’t comment on performance.
>
> You can make a bad antenna (performing)  from good components.
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