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Originally Posted by Manual Garcia O'Kely
The TW looks interesting but I question how much pole they will have to add to cover 80 meters - gosh, my BP takes larger coils and 10' whips then has almost 50 KHz of bandwidth on 80 meters. And it's 25' end to end in that configuration.
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Good point, it will be interesting to see what they have come up with. I'm not sure what the size will be for the 40m! It should be here this week, and will post some numbers.
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Originally Posted by Radio
So from what I have seen, read, researched...I draw some assumptions:
1. It works about as well sitting on the ground as elevated, and requires no counterpoise.
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From what I have read, yes. I have not tried it on the ground. No counterpoise.
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2. The feedline/control line shoud be pulled away from the antenna elements.Right?
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Yes, when I had the cables just hanging down, the swr’s seemed a bit high, when I moved them to about a 45-deg. Angle, they came down to around a 1:1. I did put the antenna analyzer on it to check all the bands, I don’t recall the numbers, I was happy with them. I do not need to use the tuner with this antenna.
Mark