Colin:
I hear you, and it is even harder to get the screw-driver I have to tune
without the turbo-tuner to help get the SWR down, especially on the lower
bands where it is extremely narrow.
I would like to try some sort of a wire antenna, but I don't have much
height to work with, and I'd need the antenna to be easily deployed in a
small space. This, of course, is due to the nature of RV camp grounds where
we stay. The individual sites are rather close together, and trees are
rather hard to come by, especially in the right places for antenna ends.
I'm open to any ideas or suggestions.
Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: looking for a 10-80M trapped dipole
> the more I hear about the screw driver, the less I like it.
> When the idea first began to get popular, everyone thought it was a great
> wonderful concept.
> Unfortunately, the things just don't work terribly well compared to other
> more tradditional HF antennas...like husslers etc.
> My friend has two screw driver antennas, and neither one of them work as
> well as a single mono hussler resonator. true, they'll tune up, but they
> don't seem to radiate very good...
> A wire, even a trapped dipole, will out perform a screw driver I suspect.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:49 AM
> Subject: Re: looking for a 10-80M trapped dipole
>
>
>> Colin and all:
>>
>> I'd sure like one of these myself?
>>
>> Might fit my RV situation too, since I have still not heard anything from
>> N2VZ Enterprises about the broken Turbo-tuner I sent to him almost a year
>> ago. You may recall that I used that Turbo-tuner to tune the
>> screw-driver
>> antenna that currently is on the back of the RV, and without it, though
>> it
>> can be done manually, tuning especially on the lower bands, is quite
>> tricky.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:56 AM
>> Subject: looking for a 10-80M trapped dipole
>>
>>
>>>a friend is looking for a 10 to 80M trapped dipole requiring little or no
>>> tuner, that can be fairly easily deployed in the field.
>>> He's already got a tripple hussler arrangement on the RV, and an Icom
>>> long
>>> wire tuner.
>>> However, he now has a 40FT telescoping linemans poll stuck to the back
>>> of
>>> the RV that can be raised up to support the center of a bigger HF
>>> dipole.
>>> He doesn't really want to go the G5RV route due to the necesity of the
>>> latter line hanging down...he wants flexibility for various anchoring
>>> arrangements and easy deployment.
>>> Does anyone have any recommendations for a good 10M to 80M dipole that
>>> might
>>> fit these requirements?
>>> As I said, little to no tuning would be best.
>>> Though he does have a couple small LDG auto tuners that would make life
>>> simpler if the antenna needed a bit of tuning on the various bands.
>>> Either a prebuilt antenna, or any recommendations as to where one can
>>> perchase premade traps that can be used to build such a beast.
>>>
>>> 73
>>> Colin, V A6BKX
>>>
>>
>
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