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Re: [TowerTalk] Wire antenna help needed

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Wire antenna help needed
From: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:33:15 -0500
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My OCF dipole is a few years old and is 90X180 ft with the correct chokes/baluns. Coax to the feedpoint and coax from feedpoint to off center junction. Performance is on a par with my Hy-Gain Hy-Tower with the Hy_Tower winning the race maybe 2/3 of the time and the OCF dipole maybe 1/3. The dipole usually is a little quieter. A friend 120 air miles away has never been able to get good copy on me when I'm on the Hy-Tower but the OCF puts me in Q5. I often use my auto-tuner with it and that makes my Tokyo Hy-Power very happy at a kw.

YMMV

Patrick        NJ5G


On 3/22/2017 3:05 PM, RCM wrote:
On Mar 22, 2017, at 13:49, Joe Subich, W4TV <lists@subich.com> wrote:


I would not recommend the Carolina Windom as I had one literally fall
apart due to UV degradation of the PVC DMU (feedpoint) housing here in
Florida.

To say a Carolina Windom is no good because yours fell down, is saying Ford 
cars are no good because I had a flat tire.

I think the term “Carolina Windom” was given as a cute name in some magazine 
article, describing someones version of an off center fed dipole.

Made from junk, they fall down.

I have never tried one, so I can’t comment on performance.

You can make a bad antenna (performing)  from good components.
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