"charlie" wrote in message
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Interestingly, I am able to put out a signal on 6m using a fan
dipole designed to work from 20 through 10m. Today I got a report of
5-7 over a 1600 km path. The antenna design can be seen at
http://www.radiowymsey.org/FanDipole/FanDipole.gif .

As far as I can see none of the dipoles resonate on 6m - the 40m
dipole would if it was straight dipole with no loading coils. I
guess one of the dipoles has an odd multiple near enough.

The fan dipole goes into a 50 MHz LPF and then the ICOM 703 ATU. I
wonder if anyone has an insight into how this antenna is working on 6m.


Charlie.

When 6 meters is hot almost anything will work. I had put together a 6
meter to 20 meter transverter running about 10 watts. Hooked it to a
trapped dipole ( 40 to 10 meters) and the first contact I made was from
North Carolina to Canada.

To see how well the antenna is working you need something to compair it to.
Say a 6 meter dipole .

Ralph Mowery wrote:
SNIP

When 6 meters is hot almost anything will work. I had put together a 6
meter to 20 meter transverter running about 10 watts. Hooked it to a
trapped dipole ( 40 to 10 meters) and the first contact I made was from
North Carolina to Canada.

To see how well the antenna is working you need something to compair it to.
Say a 6 meter dipole .


Ralph,

Looks like I'll be up in the loft again next weekend! I had a good
weekend giving away points in the UK 6m Group contest, it's a very
interesting band.

Cheers,


Charlie.

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