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Date: | Wed, 15 May 2013 09:32:52 -0400 |
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Mike,
If you can't find the pigtail you want, maybe just buy the cheapest 3
foot coax jumper with pl-259's on each end and cut it in half. Use the
other end for another project.
I don't know what is available in your area, but for less than fifteen
bucks, I would buy a "dipole center insulator". This has a so-239 to
accept your coax and provisions to attach the antenna wires without
pulling everything apart when it is put up in the air.
While you can use a pigtail, you will have to engineer wire attachment
and strain relief.
I don't think I would use the 4:1 balun unless you were going to feed
with open wire line, or use it at the feed point and make it a Windom
type off center fed antenna.
73, Steve KW3A
On 5/15/2013 8:40 AM, Michael Ryan wrote:
> Hi all:=20
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> I wanna build a quick deploy antenna for FD and I need to buy the coax conne=
> ctor with the 2 wires coming off it to solder to the 14AWG wire I'm gonna us=
> e.=20
> I'm gonna make some insulators and I need this pig tail but I don't know a p=
> roduct manufacturer to look for. I guess I could use the 4/1 balun I have in=
> my junk box because I don't wanna pay 77 bucks for a ready made product fro=
> m radio world in Toronto.=20
>
> 73:=20
> Michael DE VO1AX=20
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> Sent from my iPhone=
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