On Oct 9, 7:42 pm, "Howard Lester" wrote:
"Mike Coslo" wrote

I have two antennas, one is a
Butternut HF-6V, and the other is a ladder line fed dipole, 96 feet
total, and I'm tuning with a MFJ 993 auto tuner.

Mike, what's the height of your dipole, and what bands do you successfull
y
work with it?


Hi Howard,

Right around 50 feet high.
It's almost straight, with just enough droop to keep it in one piece
when the winds blow. I do work 75 and 80 meters with it, actually much
better than I had expected. One year during NAQP, I was working
California stations right after I tuned the setup, After about an
hour, I looked at the SWR meter and saw that I had forgot to increase
the power after tuning. It wasn't just that I was operating QRP, it
was that I didn't notice it. I called, they heard.

It tunes all the bands from 80 to 10 - past 20 meters it is very broad
tuning. I've tuned it on 160 meters, but not had the intestinal
fortitude to operate it there. Probably would work after a fashion,
just not very well.

- 73 de dMike N3LI -