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« on: September 15, 2015, 07:20:15 PM »
See page 66.

Some advice: Put down at least 12 radials.  Also, put a good W2DU style CURRENT balun on the coax at the feed point.

Do respect the current capacity of that 80 meter cap!




http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-News/50s/Radio-News-1954-06.pdf



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« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2015, 07:59:46 PM »


Ahh Yess, the 43' vertical........

Actually, not a bad write up.  Factual, and it points out 'problem' areas with the design and how to maximize the antennas effectiveness.

And, its not sold as an all band 160-10m, no radials, new discovery, miracle antenna.  And its a lot cheeper than the DX Engineering MBVE-5A Series SAF-T-TILT™ HF Multi-Band Vertical Antennas hiding in the neighborhood of $530. And......

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« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2015, 10:42:57 PM »
I have been able to work all bands with this setup:


http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=36935.0

or for the higher powered version:

http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=36511.0




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