K8cpa-chuck
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I did a review on it on eham. But, I wanted to post about it here too.
I've had it up a few weeks and it performs excellent.
Now, to be honest. It won't work on 160. At least not really well. It's too short. 70 ft a side is 70 ft a side. and that's just too darned short for 160; at least with any kind of signal.
However, I have gotten reports of 20 over S-9 on 75 meters... and that's at 150 watts on this Kenwood TS-950SDX. I use mine with a MFJ 989C roller inductor and it tunes it right up. In fact, 90% of the time; when I am on 40, I have the roller inductor tuner in bypass and use the tuner on the radio. The only bands that I HAVE to use the tuner on, is the 30 and 75 meter bands. The radio just won't tune those bands with this antenna.
Now, I use mine with an ugly balun, which you can read about here: BUILD AN AIR WOUND 1:1 CHOKE BALUN FOR HF - THE UGLY BALUN!. Scroll down, you'll see mine. I just removed old antenna, cut the twin-lead a few out from the ugly balun and and soldered the new stuff to the old twin-lead, shrink wrapped it, and put some caulking on it to keep the water out.
Now, keep in mind. I did not use the whole 100 feet to twin-lead that it came with; as I didn't have anywhere to put it in my backyard. But, I did use enough of it for it to work. At least for what I use it for.
Here is a video of yours truly doing a walk-around of my antenna set up. If you can tolerate my huffing and a puffin' and little bit of absent-minded swearing. (not too much though...) you can click here and watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-k1eoY17tI
Anyhow, enjoy the video and if you've got a small lot and can spare 140ft... this might be what you are looking for.
73 de Chuck K8CPA
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I've had it up a few weeks and it performs excellent.
Now, to be honest. It won't work on 160. At least not really well. It's too short. 70 ft a side is 70 ft a side. and that's just too darned short for 160; at least with any kind of signal.
However, I have gotten reports of 20 over S-9 on 75 meters... and that's at 150 watts on this Kenwood TS-950SDX. I use mine with a MFJ 989C roller inductor and it tunes it right up. In fact, 90% of the time; when I am on 40, I have the roller inductor tuner in bypass and use the tuner on the radio. The only bands that I HAVE to use the tuner on, is the 30 and 75 meter bands. The radio just won't tune those bands with this antenna.
Now, I use mine with an ugly balun, which you can read about here: BUILD AN AIR WOUND 1:1 CHOKE BALUN FOR HF - THE UGLY BALUN!. Scroll down, you'll see mine. I just removed old antenna, cut the twin-lead a few out from the ugly balun and and soldered the new stuff to the old twin-lead, shrink wrapped it, and put some caulking on it to keep the water out.
Now, keep in mind. I did not use the whole 100 feet to twin-lead that it came with; as I didn't have anywhere to put it in my backyard. But, I did use enough of it for it to work. At least for what I use it for.
Here is a video of yours truly doing a walk-around of my antenna set up. If you can tolerate my huffing and a puffin' and little bit of absent-minded swearing. (not too much though...) you can click here and watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-k1eoY17tI
Anyhow, enjoy the video and if you've got a small lot and can spare 140ft... this might be what you are looking for.
73 de Chuck K8CPA
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