[TowerTalk] Wire antenna help needed

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Fri Mar 24 15:22:01 EDT 2017


It's not quite that simple. I noted the "gotchas" with doing that in an 
earlier post in this thread that i won't repeat.

73, Jim K9YC

On Fri,3/24/2017 12:08 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote:
> If you are happy with the OCF antenna except for the power handling, 
> why not just replace the baluns (wind your own with the aid of Jim 
> Brown's tutorial) Increasing the power handling of those baluns is 
> relatively simple.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>
> On 3/22/2017 10:14 AM, K7LXC--- via TowerTalk wrote:
>> Howdy, TowerTalkians --
>>        I need some feedback on a multiband wire antenna.  I'm looking 
>> for
>> something that's already assembled and works decently. 80-10 would be 
>> nice and
>> we can use a tuner. It doesn't have to be a stellar performer. DX
>> Engineering has a bunch and I've installed a Carolina Windom before 
>> but  don't know
>> much else about it.
>>        I'm interested in your experience or other info you might 
>> have. All
>> comments appreciated!
>>   Cheers,
>> Steve    K7LXC
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