24-08-2024, 06:24 PM
Hi Doug,
In line with your thoughts I also have a 20m dipole parallel to the OCF at 1m away. I dropped this down and reswept - no change.
I then moved the location of the entry choke to directly under the balun. Again no changes.
So next will be to fold back each end of the OCF as described above. Ran out of light and will power tonight.
Hi Peter,
It will be nominally 40, 20 and 10.
As an experiment later, possibly a thought experiment at first, given how far I need to shorten it due to the coupling, I will look at trying to double the shortened lengths to make it an 80m one albeit shortened. It might be a struggle...
In line with your thoughts I also have a 20m dipole parallel to the OCF at 1m away. I dropped this down and reswept - no change.
I then moved the location of the entry choke to directly under the balun. Again no changes.
So next will be to fold back each end of the OCF as described above. Ran out of light and will power tonight.
Hi Peter,
It will be nominally 40, 20 and 10.
As an experiment later, possibly a thought experiment at first, given how far I need to shorten it due to the coupling, I will look at trying to double the shortened lengths to make it an 80m one albeit shortened. It might be a struggle...