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Re: [TowerTalk] Tower and antenna decisions

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower and antenna decisions
From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:23:31 -0700
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I briefly looked at log periodics and one thing
that hasn't been discussed here is the mediocre
SWR of LPDA's.  You're pretty much going to have
to use a tuner, and you also have increased feedline
loss.  Might work for some users, but I'm sticking
with my SteppIR antennas (3 of them so far).

An LPDA would however, make a good broadband receive
antenna for a skimmer, if you want to optimize
one direction.

Rick N6RK
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