[TowerTalk] Wire antenna?

[Glenn Pritchard]

About time someone said it. 
Snake oil is not it. I just finished making the traps for a Wilson SYS-33. Turned out great! 
There is still too much false advertising out there and for some reason we keep buying it.

Telrex brought out some really great ideas and designs however the balun sucked. 
MANY antennas were thought to be crap when it was the baluun....

Glenn, VA7UO 

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> On Jul 1, 2019, at 9:20 PM, Grant Saviers <grants2 at pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> Agree.
> 
> It's amazing how many folks drink the "all band ladder line fed <insert bad idea>" kool-aid.  And can't be deterred by awful patterns, horrific SWR's, feedline radiation and weather losses, and RF in the shack.
> 
> Before I knew better I tried the "all band 80m doublet, web ladder line fed".  Then I modeled and put up an 80/40/20 fan dipole. +++++ on all counts.
> 
> Grant KZ1W
> 
>> On 7/1/2019 8:38 PM, jimlux wrote:
>>> On 7/1/19 8:24 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
>>> 
>>> Beyond that, the marketing idea of a multiband end fed wire is just
>>> a fantasy.?? The pattern on the higher bands will be full of lobes,
>>> and the drive impedance will be all over the place.?? Ignore reviews
>>> by low information users.?? You would be advised to have a separate
>>> EFHW for each band.
>>> 
>>> The best thing a wire antenna user can do is to make all wire
>>> antennas monoband.?? Most of the mischief having to do with wires
>>> occurs when people attempt to broadband them.
>>> 
>> hence the "fan monopole" or "fan dipole", especially with a tuner (or attenuator to make the amplifier happy)
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