VK3XL wrote in
:


Hi all, do you remember the old CD Stationmaster antenna? It was a end
fed 1/2 wave. I would like to make one and I believe there are plans
around to describe how its done, but so far I have not been able to
locate them on the net. Does anyone know of a link to such a page, or
even a magazine article etc. My work Library is quite good with regard
to old ham magasines etc.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
thanks for looking
Mike
VK3XL

Mike,

You are more likely to get an answer by asking the question in an
Australian context... but then a.r.a.m is a pretty uncivil place.

Next you could try Google, and it would turn up an article on Ron
Bertrand's RadioElectronicsSchool:
http://www.radioelectronicschool.net...onmaster-3.pdf
..

Is it a good antenna? Well it seems to depend on the feed line as the
'other half' of the vertical dipole, so you should be assured of high
current on the outer of the coax.

There may be other articles.

I note that quite a few of our new six hour hams with their shack on
their belt use their Stationmaster unmodified with an ATU at the
transceiver... and it 'works real good, SWR is 1:1'. Still, that is the
downside of looking at the world through a SWR meter.

Owen