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I finished my helically wound windom antenna and worked Cuba(5x8
report) today on 20 meters ssb with 100 watts. The antenna is an 80-20
off center feed with a 9-1 ferrite toroid balun (a kit) into 50 ohm
coax and an air core 1-1 choke balun. It is wound on 1.5 inch pvc
conduit which is laying on a privacy fence support about 5 feet off
the ground. The length of the conduit is 20 feet total with a total
wire length of 137 feet. There is very little local interference. My
IC 738 tuner tunes it to 1-1 swr on everything up through 160. I am
very pleased for it is a stealth antenna in my small private courtyard
(townhouse). I used a MFJ 204b antenna bridge to determine the
impedance--- about 450 ohms therefore the 9-1 balun.
I am going to write construction article with pics.

This antenna was completely experimental as I could find no info on it
except to combine windom info with slinky antenna info. Thank goodness
it worked out!

73
NC4TC




Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:49 pm

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I finished my helically wound windom antenna and worked Cuba(5x8 report) today on 20 meters ssb with 100 watts. The antenna is an 80-20 off center feed with a...
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