If you have one of the Off Center Fed dipole, Inverted Vee antennas
that is out there either by Alpha-delta or HamCallnet's Buckmaster 6
band antenna. It appears that all these have the insulated wire that
can run around trees with no problem and are constructed with 6:1
baluns. All of them say that they work most bands great without a
tuner (15 mtr not included). I'm just curious of those on the
newsgroup are any of you owners of any of these antennas? If so are
the reports true that they out perform most other dipoles and Vees
correct?

What do you think of the antennas and would you buy it again? Also
which of the OCF antennas do you own or like?

Thanks in advance

Gary

I just put up the Buckmaster/Alpha Delta OCF 6 band antenna and so far
the SWR is very good on ham bands. I am not yet able to compare it
against a regular dipole on those bands, although signals are very good
so far. I was a bit leery of these kinds of antennas after learning
the B&W put resistors in the center feed to smooth out the swr, for
their G5RV version. I do not believe the Buckmaster design does this,
it is fed off center at a 300 ohm point with a 6:1 balun, per the
advertisment. Anyone else have this antenna? Jim N4BE


Gary from McDonough wrote:
If you have one of the Off Center Fed dipole, Inverted Vee antennas
that is out there either by Alpha-delta or HamCallnet's Buckmaster 6
band antenna. It appears that all these have the insulated wire that
can run around trees with no problem and are constructed with 6:1
baluns. All of them say that they work most bands great without a
tuner (15 mtr not included). I'm just curious of those on the
newsgroup are any of you owners of any of these antennas? If so are
the reports true that they out perform most other dipoles and Vees
correct?

What do you think of the antennas and would you buy it again? Also
which of the OCF antennas do you own or like?

Thanks in advance

Gary

If so are
the reports true that they out perform most other dipoles and Vees
correct? ...

LOL.... Depends what they mean by "most"....
MK