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Rick W5RH On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM Daniel Poirot via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > I have questions! Is there any Slim Jim experience out there??? > > I have built an assortment of 2 meter antennas - dipole, 1/4 wave ground > plane, 3 element Yagi, J pole - they are all fabulous and work as expected. > > My two Slim Jim’s have let me down. I built one with 1/2” copper pipe and > one from 450 Ohm ladder line. Both ended up with crazy SWR and impedance > that is all over the place. > > I am using community accepted sites for calculators. > > I have every expectation that I have fouled them both!!! > > Thank you, > 73 > Dan KJ5IZK > > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
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