Hi Kevin,

That helps a lot.  I definitely would want to run the antenna in an inverted vee configuration.  I'm primarily interested in 40 thru ten and hopefully the warc
bands as well.  Anything at all on 80 or 160 would be fine, so any performance at all would be just fine with me.  If it's better than that, all to the good!
<smile>

Don  W6SMB

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 03:06:46 -0000, Kevin Nathan wrote:

Hi Don,

I ran the BWD 1.8-30 for several years.  This is the folded dipole model and
is overall about 90 feet long or so.  I found it to work very well
everywhere except 160 meters where it tuned up ok but didn't seem to radiate
very well.  I did work my share of DX on 40 through 10 but not much on 80.
It was very good for local and regional signals there though as well.  I had
it up with the apex at about 45 feet in an inverted vee configuration.  It
is also fairly quiet.

I hope this helps a little.  Very 73.

Kevin :)
Amateur Radio:  K7RX
Navy Marine Corps MARS:  NNN0SHS





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Subject: barker & williamson


Hi Gang,

     Has anyone on the list used a broad-band folded dipole from Barker &
Willianson?  I came across an ad for one on the web, and thought it would be
a good antenna to use with my IC-718 Transceiver.  I'm interested in the
model BWD-45, which covers 40-10 meters.




Best regards, from Don and Crazy Cullen.