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Yeah Butch, that seems to be the consensus on the Tower Talk listserve.
It's a relatively good performing antenna but because of its inherently
off balance design, usually generates large common mode currents and
that creates unwanted RF into the shack. You can help to mitigate this
with a properly design multi-core choke and because of the large
impedeance required by that choke, they will saturate at high power and
burn up so that antenna is best suited for low power applications.
Rob K6DQ
On 3/1/2015 6:33 PM, Butch Bussen wrote:
> I've used these off and on over the years. They are more suseptablde to
> rf in the shack. At least in my experience. I had one up for 160 through
> ten fried the ballon last summer with my alpha, but I could never get the
> swr down on 160, no matter what I did. It worked fine on 75, but on 40,
> same high swr problem. It was resonant at around 1700 kc and nothing I
> did, shortening both ends didn't change much. It is worth a try and a
> good compromise antenna for all bands.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
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