just try it without the extra wires first, you may be surprised and get a
good match from one of the other wires.

"aRKay" wrote in message
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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

"Dave" wrote in message
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just try it without the extra wires first, you may be surprised and get a
good match from one of the other wires.


You would think so, since 7 x 7.2 = 50.4. I happen to have a 7 & 18 MHz
antenna; so, I measured the SWR on 6 meters. Got about 2.9:1 at 50.25. SWR
at 56 MHz is about 1.2:1. Nevertheless, I have spoken to people on 6m who
were using 40 m dipoles.

Tam/WB2TT

"aRKay" wrote in message
...
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