I have the butternut, ground mounted, not enough radials. It does make a good dummy load, and is poor on receive as well. I removed the 160 meter coil, that was useless!
My take on antenna's is the bigger they are, the better they work. I would not buy anything mfj, and anything with traps or baluns does not seem to work long on AM over 100 watts, no matter how well its made. I gave up on that stuff and just run a dipole. I tried one of the B+W all band antennas, the swr was bad, and the power rating of 2kw was ssb only, B+W told me about 175 watts of AM was about all it was good for, and the center resistor thing was smoking at that power level! The most trouble free thing I ever came up with that worked well was a resonant dipole with no tuner. Wish I had room and/or a tower, but I don't... Brett N2DTS > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Brashear > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AMRadio] MFJ > > Before you explode over the "Subject", please, read on... I am in an > antenna dilemma at this time. I have to wait a few months > before I can > install the HyTower and folded dipole I have. In the mean time I am > stuck with an expensive Butternut 160/80/40 "Dummy Load" as my buddy > calls it. So, I am looking into the new MFJ 80 meter > rotatable dipole > to put on the Hazer and run up the tower. Has anyone had any > experience > with it or know of anyone who has? I know Bob, PE, had or has a > rotatable dipole up he really likes. I would welcome any > constructive > comments you might have. It is supposedly rated at 1500 watts PEP on > SSB/CW, however, there are no specs stated for AM operation, > of course. > Do you think the 375 watt carrier would fry it or do you > think it would > hold up? > > Thanks, > Rick/K5IZ > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected]
