[TowerTalk] 80m DX special dipole

[Tom Osborne]

> Wouldn't it just be MUCH easier to put some ladder line on the antenna and
> use a Matchbox to tune it??


That is what I do here. Using an old Johnson Matchbox and the antenna works
like gangbusters on  ALL bands.   73

Tom W7WHY

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> It should be possible to broadband your vertical using lumped element
> circuits at the base.  You would need to model or measure the base
> impedance vs frequency and then find the element values by trial and
> error with a modeling program like SimSmith.  Somewhere in the past, QST
> had an article about this in "technical correspondence" that related to
> dipoles.  That would at least get you started.
>
> Dan:  can AUTO-EZ do this optimization?
>
> 73
> Rick N6RK
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