88 ft + 66 ft fanned doublet?
Will such a wire antenna give me good coverage of all HF ham bands 80M
and shorter? According to Cebik in his article, “My Top Five Backyard Multi-Band Wire HF antennas," an 88 ft doublet (or double zepp) is not so good for 10, 12, 15 or 17M, whereas a 44 ft doublet is good on those bands. See: http://www.cebik.com/fdim/fdim9.pdf Will a fanned doublet using 88 ft and 44 ft wires cover all the HF bands, 80M and shorter? How about 88 ft and 33 ft? If fanning works, is there a shorter wire that will give me 6, 10, 12, 15 and 17M? Ken KC2JDY Ken (to reply via email remove "zz" from address) |
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:35:33 GMT, Ken wrote:
Ooops. Subject should have been "88 + 44 ft fanned doublet" Ken (to reply via email remove "zz" from address) |
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:35:33 GMT, Ken wrote:
Will such a wire antenna give me good coverage of all HF ham bands 80M and shorter? According to Cebik in his article, “My Top Five Backyard Multi-Band Wire HF antennas," an 88 ft doublet (or double zepp) is not so good for 10, 12, 15 or 17M, whereas a 44 ft doublet is good on those bands. I recently had a 44-ft doublet up, with 42 feet of 450 ohm line to a coiled coax choke balun. With my tuner, it worked well from 30 thru 10, and required no tuner at all on 12. If you combined that with something for 40 & 80, you'd be all set. Bob k5qwg See: http://www.cebik.com/fdim/fdim9.pdf Will a fanned doublet using 88 ft and 44 ft wires cover all the HF bands, 80M and shorter? How about 88 ft and 33 ft? If fanning works, is there a shorter wire that will give me 6, 10, 12, 15 and 17M? Ken KC2JDY Ken (to reply via email remove "zz" from address) |
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