[TowerTalk] 80m DX special dipole
Guido Tedeschi
guidoted at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 15:27:19 EDT 2018
I built an 80m DX special dipole.
http://1vc.typepad.com/ethergeist/2011/01/a-broadband-contest-antenna-for-80m.html
I used the Messi & Paoloni BROAD-PRO 50/C cable instead of RG213
(https://messi.it/dati/immagini/BROAD-PRO50-All6_EN.pdf).
The cable lenghts are recalculated for a velocity factor of 0.85 instead
of 0.66 and the overall lenght (cables plus wires) is the same of the
original project, but the result is not satisfactory.
The SWR pattern is correct but it is like having an offset of about 2:
the two lower dips have an SWR of about 2 and the highest SWR on band
reach 3
What could be wrong?
Is it necessary to use a cable with 0.66 velocity factor?
Thanks and 73
Guido, ik2bcp
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