On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:35:33 GMT, Ken wrote:

Will such a wire antenna give me good coverage of all HF ham bands 80M
and shorter?

According to Cebik in his article, “My Top Five Backyard Multi-Band
Wire HF antennas," an 88 ft doublet (or double zepp) is not so good
for 10, 12, 15 or 17M, whereas a 44 ft doublet is good on those
bands.

I recently had a 44-ft doublet up, with 42 feet of 450 ohm line to a
coiled coax choke balun. With my tuner, it worked well from 30 thru
10, and required no tuner at all on 12. If you combined that with
something for 40 & 80, you'd be all set.

Bob
k5qwg

See:
http://www.cebik.com/fdim/fdim9.pdf

Will a fanned doublet using 88 ft and 44 ft wires cover all the HF
bands, 80M and shorter? How about 88 ft and 33 ft?

If fanning works, is there a shorter wire that will give me 6, 10, 12,
15 and 17M?

Ken KC2JDY




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