[TowerTalk] Greyline Performance comments on QRZ

[Kim Elmore]

I looked on eHam reviews, and saw someone, using an autotuner at the 
antennas happily report that the SWR was essentially 1:1 on every band. 
My though was"I should hope so; otherwise, your autotuner isn't working 
well." But I don't think Greyline Antennas claim a perfect match on 
every band *without* a tuner at (or very near) the feedpoint.

Regardless, the basic idea isn't necessarily bad. If executed well, with 
all the needed stuff, it should work just like a, well, vertical dipole. 
Maybe better than things like antennas in the attic, or random wires 
around privacy fences, or loading up rain gutters.

Kim N5OP

On 10/19/2020 9:10 AM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> The tuners are listed as an Add-ons but I wonder why it is needed for 
> an antenna with nearly perfect SWR on every band.
> https://greylineperformance.com/collections/vertical-antenna/products/28-foot-vertical-antenna 
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> They are looking for an antenna designer if anyone on towertalk is 
> interested:
> https://greylineperformance.com/pages/jobs-antenna-design-mechanical-engineer 
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> 73,
> John KK9A
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Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP 
SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)

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