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![]() With a tubing vertical you can run the coax up the inside of the lower half to feed the dipole and use relays to switch between base feed and center feed for changing bands... GAP does something similar with traps (after assembling a GAP for a local ham I am not a fan of GAP antennas, their basic idea is sound however) You will need a choke coil right at the base and probably should bury the feedline into the soil as deeply as you can trench it - at least 3 or 4 feet - and have another choke a quarter wave back from the feed point... Lots of work, not much extra cost... Should work OK... Other way to do it (and my preference) is think like a Ringo Ranger and stay with base feed... Insert a half wave, parallel feed line, phasing section at the mid point and get the benefit of 2 quarter wave in phase radiators on 20 meters... Short this phasing line out for 40 meters.. Again, run the relay wiring inside the lower tube... denny - k8do In business as "Solutions are Us" - as long as I don't have to actually do the work! |
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