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I'm mulling the construction of a "nested HF squalos" antenna. At
least three bands, wires for 20, 15 and 10M in a coplanar arrangement on four fiberglass spreaders. Basically a multiband cubical quad driven element with a common feedpoint, single feedline and flopped over into the horizontal position. After wading thru all the modeling comes the real world. I'll cut the wires a bit longer than modeling indicates and start manually tuning the thing to resonance by nipping all the wires a bit at a time using the 259B, etc. Each nip will affect the resonant points of all the wires due to the interactions amongst the wires. The question: Which wire should I start tuning first? I've seen posts which state that one should start nipping from the lowest band to the highest band and I've seen recommendations to start with the highest band and work down to the lowest band. Which way is it?? Tnx, w3rv |
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