Hello, When you get it tuned and up - keep us posted, especially on the range of local simplex QSOs.
How high do you plan on putting it up. 73, Sam. Neal. N5Af Cleveland,TX Monitoring 52.525 simplex …….....................…....................... Subject: Re: [BVARC] Home built 6 meter 5/8 wave vertical Get SWR at 3 freqs. to get a feel for where the lowest SWR freq. might be. Then you can change the loading coil tap or antenna length. Gary Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On January 8, 2017 3:56:23 PM Gayle Dotts via BVARC wrote: > Almost finished my first home built 6 Meter antenna, 13.5 feet tall with > 49" radials. This is coil loaded from the bottom 10 turns. The plans say > 14GA coated wire and tap. I think the wire should be bare for the tap > (aligator clip) to connect to. Plans don"t say this. By the way SWR is way > high.3.0. Any advice. > > Thanks, > Gayle > KF5LVZ > > > > ---------- > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
