Yes, I got the 1.8 to 30 MHz thing from B+W. I did run it through a tuner, although with tube stuff they tell you that you don't need to. It was 40 feet up, and the lowest SWR was 3:1. At 175 watts of carrier, smoke was pouring out of it.
I threw it out, as it tends to be a tangled up mess in short time if not up in the air. I say, any wire dipole you can manage is best, low, bent, U shaped, sloping, V or flat, just something long enough to radiate a signal. I used to run a dipole on 80 with coils to resonate it. I had about 100 feet and made up 10 feet each end with some B+W coil stock over an insulator. It worked well till it got old and wore out. Brett N2DTS > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Brashear > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 5:45 PM > To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service > Subject: Re: [AMRadio] MFJ > > Thanks Brett. The only good thing about the Butternut vertical is it > was easy to assemble and adjust. I don't have any radials, so I know > Mother Earth is getting the lion's share of my signal. I > would love to > get up a wire, but I have a building that is to be erected > soon (I hope) > and I can't do much until that is done. In the mean time I'm just > heating the ground beneath my vertical. > > Did you use the B&W folded dipole they insist will cover 160 > through 10 > without a tuner? Geez, I hope not because that's the one I > have an have > been dying to get up. If it's a clunker on AM I am in deep > trouble in > the wire department. > > I'm not a MFJ fan at all, but they are the only one around with a 80 > meter rotatable dipole. However, that dream fell though anyway. I > called them and production won't start until next year! I > won't need it > then. Go figure... > > Rick/K5IZ > > Brett gazdzinski wrote: > > >I have the butternut, ground mounted, not enough radials. > >It does make a good dummy load.... > > > I tried one of the B+W all band antennas, the swr was bad.... > > >Brett > >N2DTS > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
