[HiDARG-MEMBERS] 6m horizontal

[Mark]

I am on freq but everyone is in the noise

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 8:16 PM Kent Garliepp <kent.af7qo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
> I tried a design without balun, no sucess. So I looked up the length
> calculation for a folded dipole, about 9ft, and cut the 450 ohm ladder line
> for that. Added the 300 ohm feed and connected it to my existing home made
> 4-1 current balun. Had to trim off about 1.5 inches on each end in order to
> tune to the middle of the band once I got it up to 10 to 12 ft.
> It has an SWR across the band of 1.5 to 2 and I think that is due to the
> balun output of 200 ohm to the antenna 300 ohm impedance mismatch. I need a
> 6-1 balun or a matching network. The IC-7300 is happy with it and I got
> good signal reports today so maybe I'll not worry about it.
> I could hang it vertically and I'd need some sort of support to get the
> feed line perpendicular to the antenna.
> Sunday, if I can set it up, I'll try an A-B test with the sleeved dipole I
> used last week. The horizontal antenna has about half the background noise
> of the vert (2 vs 5 S units).
> 73,
> Kent AF7QO
>
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> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 7:31 PM Jeff Moore <tnetcenter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nice and simple!  I like it!  It should work great for DX,  What about
>> local comms?   Can you rig it vertically?   And what are the approximate
>> dimensions?  Is this your design or did you use plans?
>>
>> Jeff Moore  --  KE7ACY
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:17 PM Kent Garliepp <kent.af7qo at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> See picture for today's 6m antenna. A 450 ohm  ladder line folded dipole
>>> fed with 300 ohm ladder line. There is a 4 to 1 current balun behind the
>>> fence. Need to trim a bit off the ends to get it in band, it'll be OK for
>>> today, I'll fix it for tomorrow.
>>> Kent AF7QO
>>>
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