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Re: [TowerTalk] SteppIR gain - Two Feed Lines

To: "'Lee Buller'" <k0wa@swbell.net>,"'TowerTalk Reflector'" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] SteppIR gain - Two Feed Lines
From: "Joe Subich, K4IK" <k4ik@subich.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:02:47 -0500
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Lee writes: 

> Two feedlines to the SteppIR is not a bad idea, but
> would take some engineering.  Have one fiberglass
> tubes for 40 through 10 on the driven element and two
> reels for belerium copper strips in two different
> reels.  When you go to 40 meters....the usual beam
> strips would go all the way in...and then the 40 to 10
> dipole goes out from a different set of reels out the
> same fibreglass tube using a different feedline.

Interesting to contemplate ... more difficult mechanically 
and more expensive than a relay to switch the matching 
transformer which SteppIR have rejected because of 
concerns with reliability. 

73, 

   ... Joe, K4IK 
 

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