Elden Fenison wrote:
* Brian Kelly [07/17/2005 02:19 UTC]:
The wire should outperform the 6BTV by a large margin IF you have an
even half-decent counterpoise/grounding system in place like a
wire-over-the-roof plus Reg's plumbing system connections. You'd also
get much more bandwidth with a wire vs. the 6BTV. A random wire can
be used on 30M, a 6BTV cannot be used on 30M, etc.

Excellent info, thanks!

You can put up a wire and buy a manual wire tuner like the $110 MFJ
941E plus the cost of the wire. I'll do the tuning manually and save
$150-200 additional cost for any autotuner every time.

Yeah, $140 difference. Question about that though... wouldn't the AH-4
be a better choice for another reason? That reason being that the AH-4
is designed to connect to the wire directly at the feed point, whereas
the MFJ is apparently designed for in-shack use.

Yes and no, it's a matter of several tradeoffs Elden. Right now I'm up
to ears in alligators so QRX and I'll get back to you late Monday with
some comments.

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