[TowerTalk] 80m DX special dipole

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

In this case the station is operated remotely.  It is not practical to
adjust a manual antenna tuner!

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2018-09-13 6:03 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
>> Wouldn't it just be MUCH easier to put some ladder line on the antenna and
>> use a Matchbox to tune it??
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> 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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