It should work OK. You will need a little patience to prune the 50 Mhz
antenna length to resonance.

To reduce the coupling between antennas you could allow the 50 MHz
dipole to droop a little in the form of a shallow inverted-V.

Just progressivly increase the lemgth of the hanging insulating
strings towards the end of the 50 MHz dipole. It doesn't matter if the
dipole has curves in it.

I hope I have correctly judged your setup.
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Reg.

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:43:55 GMT, aRKay wrote:

I just purchased a Ten-Tec 1208 Transverter to get my feet wet on six
meters. I would like to use my existing W9INN fan dipole if possible.
At the present time the fan dipole has three sets of wires from the
common feed point for 40/80, 10 MHz and 18 MHz. My plan is to add
another short set of wires cut for 50.125 MHz. Since each of the new
wires will only be 4.67 feet, I plan to use stand offs and run them
close to the 40/80 dipoles. It will be interesting to see if this
really works. Any suggestions for the short stand off insulators?

Dick, AA5VU
aa5vu at arrl.net

That 17m (18mhz) antenna should do well. I run a bunch of antennas
and for local work rather than turning a beam I use a `24ft EDZ with
a stub tuning on each wire to match 50ohms. The oddity of that
antenna is it looks like a plain dipole at 18mhz according to the
MFJ269b.

I'd drive that and see what the SWR looked like, it may be fair
as is. Owing to the amount of wire it may offer some amout of gain
over a plain dipole.

Good luck,
Allison
KB1GMX

In article
,
aRKay wrote:

I just purchased a Ten-Tec 1208 Transverter to get my feet wet on six
meters. I would like to use my existing W9INN fan dipole if possible.
At the present time the fan dipole has three sets of wires from the
common feed point for 40/80, 10 MHz and 18 MHz. My plan is to add
another short set of wires cut for 50.125 MHz. Since each of the new
wires will only be 4.67 feet, I plan to use stand offs and run them
close to the 40/80 dipoles. It will be interesting to see if this
really works. Any suggestions for the short stand off insulators?

Dick, AA5VU
aa5vu at arrl.net

I have decided to hold off changing anything until I get the Transverter
next week. I will then see if someone is close before I start messing
with extra wires.

The problem with adding another set of wires for 50.125 is how to keep
them from getting tangled in the wind. I have visions of them wrapping
around the 40/80 set of wires.

Stay tuned for what happens. Half the fun of getting a new toy like the
six meter transverter will be finding the right antenna.

Dick aa5Vu

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:55:02 GMT, aRKay wrote:

In article
,
aRKay wrote:

I just purchased a Ten-Tec 1208 Transverter to get my feet wet on six
meters. I would like to use my existing W9INN fan dipole if possible.
At the present time the fan dipole has three sets of wires from the
common feed point for 40/80, 10 MHz and 18 MHz. My plan is to add
another short set of wires cut for 50.125 MHz. Since each of the new
wires will only be 4.67 feet, I plan to use stand offs and run them
close to the 40/80 dipoles. It will be interesting to see if this
really works. Any suggestions for the short stand off insulators?


I have one of those TT1208s and it's been a good tool for 6m. I have
some impressive contacts off it and a 3 element beam. Enjoy it.

Allison

In article ,
wrote:


I have one of those TT1208s and it's been a good tool for 6m. I have
some impressive contacts off it and a 3 element beam. Enjoy it.

Allison

Allison,

I have heard good things about the Ten Tec Transverter and figured it
was time to give it a try. I am a RTTY Junkie and noticed a six meter
RTTY spot yesterday. The 1208 should be here on Tuesday.

Dick AA5VU

Allison,

I have heard good things about the Ten Tec Transverter and figured it
was time to give it a try. I am a RTTY Junkie and noticed a six meter
RTTY spot yesterday. The 1208 should be here on Tuesday.

Dick AA5VU

The TT I had had a very hot receiver. I had the marage amplifier with the
gasfet preamp and when I turned on the preamp I could not tell any
differance in the weak signals. The S-meter came up but the noise came up
with the signal. I could get the same effect in the audio just by turning
up the volume on the receiver.
On transmitt, 10 watts or so is still 10 watts. Just a little too low for
me on 6 meters. With many of the newer rigs having 100 watts on 6 I think
that is the power level to shoot for.

For what is it , the transverter does a very fine job.