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a friend of mine has suggested for 80m on up a full size 80 meter
"dipole" 66' X inches per leg, center fed with 300 Ohm twinlead Hi Gary, A classical Zepp or Zepplin antenna is not center fed. I thought they were end fed and hanging down from the airships of WW2. If you have the room for a full sized 80m dipole, use 300 ohm or 450 ohm ladder line with a choke balun (1:1 W2DU) and an antenna tuner. Will work great on all HF bands. Don't mess with a 4:1 balun. Doesn't provide enough benefit for this type of antenna. The best "all band" antenna I have ever used was a 100' dipole, high as possible, fed with ladder line and a tuner. Don't know if the 1:1 balun I used did much. 73 Gary N4AST |
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