Dick wrote in news:aa5vu-82CC35.08430320062010@
5ad64b5e.bb.sky.com:

In article ,
Dick wrote:

I have an old 2-meter Ringo Ranger on top of the tower
that has not been used for some time. I wonder how it
will do for six meters?

None of my SWR boxes cover VHF so may have to just
give it try and see what happens.

Wish me luck

It was a good idea that DID NOT work. The SWR as shown
on rig's s-meter was terrible and I could tell it was not hearing
as well as the fan dipole.

Well Dick, you only asked for positive responses, and you go none... so
no surprises.

The matching arrangement on the Ringo is a quite narrow band one, so you
should expect that it will not work well on 6m.

It is not uncommon to hear of people on HF using a 11m end fed half wave
with narrowband matching (ie similar to the Ringo) on the lower bands (eg
7MHz) with the 'assistance' of an ATU. I quote 'assistance' because the
ATU does assist in obtaining a good VSWR for the transceiver, but
probably converts most of the transmitter to heat. A good example of the
failure of an entirely VSWR focused approach.

An ATU can hide a multitude of sins.

Owen