Just leave that dipole outside stretching, maybe you will get dipole for
75M one day :D
73, Mirko, S57AD
2017-01-05 20:50 GMT+01:00 Bryan Swadener via Amps <amps@contesting.com>:
> Humor apparently missed... by TWO.
> ;-)
> vy 73,Bryan WA7PRC
>
>
> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 13:30:46 -0600
> From: Joe WB9SBD
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Decline of homebrewing?
>
> Yup, and even if it was a direct relation, for every inch of stretch, on
> 40 it would only go down 5 Kc.
>
> Joe WB9SBD
>
> On 1/5/2017 1:22 PM, Bill WA4LAV wrote:
> > A little stretch makes little difference due to the low Q of a
> half-wave dipole antenna.
> > 73
> > Bill WA4LAV
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Bryan WA7PRC
> > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 12:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Amps] Decline of homebrewing?
> >
> > After many years of stretching, I bet the resonant frequency is lower.
> ;-)
> > vy 73,
> > Bryan WA7PRC ------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 10:49:08 -0600
> > From: Joe WB9SBD
> > Subject: Re: [Amps] Decline of homebrewing?
> >
> > My 40 meter "Novice" First antenna Dipole, is still in the air. No Fancy
> > Baluns, just RG-58 coax split at the center with porcelain insulators.
> > Wire? Stranded 14 Ga house wire.
> >
> > Been radiating with it since spring of 1976.
> >
> > Joe WB9SBD
>
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