On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV <[email protected]> wrote: > OCF antennas, under miscellaneous names, have been working fine... ============= Of course. Please note that the Elecraft product line was originally designed to be used with an end-fed wire (the ultimate in off-center feed), or with a long wire fed against a short counterpoise. It's pretty far-fetched to say that OCF antenna are no good -- they radiate and they receive. I worked 260 countries in a year with an OCF antenna that I used on all bands 80-10.
An OCF antenna may require more knowledge from its user than a coax-fed dipole, but that doesn't mean it won't work. If you set it up properly it will work. If you don't, RF will come into your shack and bite you, and you'll be unhappy. But there's a lot of ham gear that doesn't give good results when set up wrong. Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
