Microlight 40M OCF portable antenna

Started by Lamewolf, September 16, 2016, 10:57:12 AM

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Lamewolf

Must be due to the surroundings, my swr on 20 is perfect, so is 40, 17, 12, and part of 10. On 80 it starts low at 3.5 MHz and is almost 4:1 at 4 mhz.

Anyway, got time to put the microweight OCF together and hang it up long enough to sweep it on the MFJ-259B and the swr is around 2.5:1 on 40, 20,15 & 10 meters, around 3:1 on 12 and 17 meters.  The wires are presently at 13' and 54' and I may be able to get the swr lower by adjusting the wire lengths.  At any rate, its close enough that he tuner in the Icom 703 will knock it down to nothing on all bands and that includes 30 & 60 meters !