Another option is to build an off center fed inverted V. I recently made
one that works on 40, 20 and 10 meters without a tuner and uses a
Palomar Engineers 4:1 & 1:1 hybrid balun.
One thing I found with manufactured antennas for HF is that they don't
always work as advertised. At least with a home brew antenna, I can
tailor it to work well at my QTH by adjusting the lengths of the wires.
73
John Denison
KD5YOU
On 5/8/2026 11:04 AM, Scott Medbury via BVARC wrote:
My old trusty fan dipole took a fatal beating from a contractor and
rather than rebuilding my homebrew that covered 40 thru 10, I'm
looking at an Alpha Delta for 80 thru 6 to put up. Any thoughts or
suggestions are welcome.
73 ... Scott KD5FBA
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