> Your multi-dipole will be more efficient on 80 meters, and can be fed > directly with coax and no tuner. If I were in your shoes, I would leave > well enough alone unless there is some other overriding reason to change it.
FWIW I had a multi-band trap dipole from Spi-Ro that worked OK but was frustrating because it seemed "multiband" meant "equally bad on all bands". There wasn't a single ham frequency at which it was naturally resonant -- thought it had many non-ham-band resonant frequencies. I replaced it with a 40/20/10 multi-dipole which can be coax-fed and is well under 2:1 throughout the CW portions of 40, 20, and 10 and is reasonably resonant on 15. I can tune it with the KAT100 very easily for any band including 80 and all the WARC bands. I'm not an antenna guy, but I've gotta believe more signal is getting out of this dipole than was with the multiband antenna that required traps, baluns, and a tuner. Craig NZ0R K1 #1966 K2/100 #4941 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
