Hi again,
Someone, whose mail I must have deleted, asked the other day how well
my F-12 EF140S dipole worked, added onto the boom of the C3.
Well, it is the best 40 meter antenna I have ever had! That is why
I am working so hard to get it to work well again, hi. Mine is the
shortened version, 37 feet end to end of the elements, with linear
loading wires which are used to tune for the desired center
resonant frequency, plus a small coil at the feedpoint to set
the resulting unit as close to 1:1 vswr as possible. I am certain
it is better than any other 40 wire dipole, inverted v, or my present
40 meter vertical. Of course, it would be nice to have a reflector
element (and even add a director to that), but in my situation that
is not going to be possible. I believe the rotating 40 dipole is
just fine for me. BTW, with a tuner, it works fine on 30 meters
also.
73, Jim, KH7M
On the Garden Island of Kauai
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