07-09-2024, 08:37 AM
After playing for a bit, I have found that I can tune the OCF on 40, 30, 20, 17 and 10m.
Can't quite stretch it to 15 and 12m. The tuner doesn't run to 6m (although I have a cheap Chinese tuner on the way that is supposed to cover to 54Mhz).
So of course this has tweaked my curiosity about making a fan dipole for 15 and 12m. I have knocked up a choke/balun with two sets of antenna terminations. I am thinking about using some 13mm or 25mm poly pipe as spreaders.
I am still considering the four "end" spreaders as they will need to have more rigidity than the others spreaders as I don't think poly pipe will take the compressive load.
Having said that, it will cost very little to try with poly pipe I guess! The vineyards give away kilometres of old pipe when they replace the irrigation on a block.
Can't quite stretch it to 15 and 12m. The tuner doesn't run to 6m (although I have a cheap Chinese tuner on the way that is supposed to cover to 54Mhz).
So of course this has tweaked my curiosity about making a fan dipole for 15 and 12m. I have knocked up a choke/balun with two sets of antenna terminations. I am thinking about using some 13mm or 25mm poly pipe as spreaders.
I am still considering the four "end" spreaders as they will need to have more rigidity than the others spreaders as I don't think poly pipe will take the compressive load.
Having said that, it will cost very little to try with poly pipe I guess! The vineyards give away kilometres of old pipe when they replace the irrigation on a block.