I use that antenna also. In fact, it is my ONLY antenna AND it is only 12 feet
off the ground. Works amazingly well loaded with either the tuner in my
TS-2000 or the MFJ-993.
73, Don ADØK
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From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Bill Turner
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:50
To: RTTY
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Working VP6DX
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On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:29:57 -0600, "Peter Laws" <plaws@plaws.net>
wrote:
>OK, so 30, then. Dunno if the ol' 5-band trap will tune up there but
>it surprised me by tuning well enough on 17 to work them there!
>
>Thanks!
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Forgot to mention I worked then using my 160/80/40 parallel inverted
vees. The SWR was pretty high, but propagation was good.
73, Bill W6WRT
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