John,
Did cutting the ladder line affect performance on other bands?
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 22:21
Subject: Re: Vertical antennas
>I used to tune it with the internal tuner in the TS-2000 and it worked
> pretty well. That's where the orientation of the ladder line is a little
> tricky though, at first I had it bunched up like they said to and it
> wouldn't tune on 160 with the internal tuner but once I cut the ladder
> line
> and got it to length, it worked very well.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 9:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Vertical antennas
>
>
>> Howard,
>>
>> It's a very quiet antenna. In fact, there have been times when I thought
>> the antenna might be broken, but it loaded exactly as it should and
>> checked
>> out ok when visually inspected.
>>
>> I've tried it on 160, and although I can get it to tune on most parts of
>> the
>> band using an external tuner, I don't think it works very well. My
>> TS2000
>> doesn't do 60 meters, and I've never tried it on 30 since I'm not all
>> that
>> interested in working CW.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 13:06
>> Subject: Re: Vertical antennas
>>
>>
>>> Steve, how does your ultralyte recieve? How does it tune and work on
>>> 160,
>>> 60, and 30?
>>>
>
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