Kees wrote:

Hello fellow shortwave listeners !

More info to make a T2FD yourself, like I did mine, please have a
look at:

http://members.home.nl/rita.kees/t2fdmake.html

I hope you can appreciate it and use it for your practice.

I will be glad to answer your questions.

73/cheers

Kees

I made a nice one up a number of years ago and really wasn't impressed
with it.

Stuck with the wires.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

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Kees wrote:

Hello fellow shortwave listeners !

More info to make a T2FD yourself, like I did mine, please have a
look at:

http://members.home.nl/rita.kees/t2fdmake.html

I hope you can appreciate it and use it for your practice.

I will be glad to answer your questions.

73/cheers

Kees

I made a nice one up a number of years ago and really wasn't impressed
with it.

Stuck with the wires.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm




A friend of mine and his son made one, and the drop in noise level was
huge. When he moved and had more room, he made a bigger one, and put
both of them up. His R8A and R8B's were awsome on them. I wish I had one
of my receivers to compare them to the day I was out there.


I wish I had the room for one, but I don't have enough room to make one
big enough to be worth all the work making it. I'll just have to settle
for my 3 medium sized Windom dipoles and one sloper. And the backup
ramdom wire in the attic.

I miss my slinky "longwire", it was awesome! It was only 5 years old
when it "died"...sniff. Gotta throw another one up when it's time to
replace one of the dipoles...

One antenna that I don't miss is the nearly worthless Sony AN1 active
antenna. That one was a stinker..and expensive.

BDK

Hi


What are the odds ? :-)

Well I hear some successtories and non-successtories.

Mine is very low-noise; signals are low too, but I think S/N here is
very very good.

When I use a FD4 or FD3 (Fritzel) or a (long)wire, the RX is much more
"nervous". Very unpleasant listening.


73
Kees




On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:16:07 -0400, dxAce
wrote:



Kees wrote:

Hello fellow shortwave listeners !

More info to make a T2FD yourself, like I did mine, please have a
look at:

http://members.home.nl/rita.kees/t2fdmake.html

I hope you can appreciate it and use it for your practice.

I will be glad to answer your questions.

73/cheers

Kees

I made a nice one up a number of years ago and really wasn't impressed
with it.

Stuck with the wires.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

Kees wrote:

Hi

What are the odds ? :-)

Well I hear some successtories and non-successtories.

Mine is very low-noise; signals are low too, but I think S/N here is
very very good.

Mine was low noise too..., low noise, low signal... always had much, much
better results with a transformer matched wire.

When I use a FD4 or FD3 (Fritzel) or a (long)wire, the RX is much more
"nervous". Very unpleasant listening.

What exactly do you mean by 'nervous'?

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

N8KDV,

Fritzel "FD4" Multiband Antenna 80M-10M / 3.5 to 30 MHZ 2kw Dipole
eHAM-REVIEWS= http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/1055
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/1055?page=2

Fritzel "FD3" Tri-Band 'Dipole' Antenna 40M/20M/10M
eHAM-REVIEWS= http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/3497

History of the Windom Antenna
http://www.scotham.net/modules.php?n...rticle&sid=218
"What became perhaps the most popular multiband Windom design
of all, was the German-made Fritzel 'FD4' Antenna"

The "No Tuner, Multi-Band, Off-Center-Fed (OCF) Dipole"
at 135 Feet long with a 6:1 Voltage Balun
OCFD= http://hamcall.net/6bandmegpole.html
Description - Pictures - Graph - Table
NOTE: Some features of this Off-Center-Fed Dipole Antenna
{Windom} are similar to the no longer available and once
popular German Fritzel FD-4 Antenna.

iane ~ RHF
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Kees wrote:

Hi

What are the odds ? :-)

Well I hear some successtories and non-successtories.

Mine is very low-noise; signals are low too, but I think S/N here is
very very good.

Mine was low noise too..., low noise, low signal... always had much, much
better results with a transformer matched wire.

When I use a FD4 or FD3 (Fritzel) or a (long)wire, the RX is much more
"nervous". Very unpleasant listening.

What exactly do you mean by 'nervous'?

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm