shortened 80 meter antenna

[KD2GOE]

75 meter phone frequency really does not cause any RFI that I have noticed, I have my computer speakers turned on and i am using legal limit into a dipole and i do not get any rfi.

I DO use good 1:1 current baluns at all feed points of my dipole antennas

i am not running a balun on the 80 meter that's is 1 thing on my list of things i need. on 80M i am getting in to my stereo and computer speakers but only on 80m. i have a W2AU on my 40/20/10m fan dipole and i get no RFI. I am going to order 3 more soon one for the 80 meter and i was thinking of making 1 for 17/15/12m or a 30/17/12m and one for my friend he wants me to help him make a fan dipole.

what brand current baluns do you run?

 

[wavrider]

w2au is same I use also and they work very well.

have to be current not voltage

Glad to see another multiband dipole user.

http://www.iw5edi.com/ham-radio/?80m-vertical-antenna-with-capacitance-hat,132

Here is a top loaded vertical for 80 meters you may enjoy building and using also.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

try 3.885, not hearing anything there

i have a K4KYV on AM 3.885

k4kyv now on ther calling cq on AM,, after I heard you and called back to you,,lol

doh
yeah i got you before MR AM came in

You guys do know that 3885 is in the AM window right? In fact it is the 75m AM calling frequency. Don, K4KYV is a BIG time AM operator near Clarksville Tenn. SSB operators aka Slop Buckets, are discouraged from operating in that AM window which is only 20 KHz wide from 3870-3890. Plenty of room for SSB elsewhere by comparison.

 

[DainBramage]

.... Don, K4KYV is a BIG time AM operator near Clarksville Tenn.....

Yeah,..... his amp is taller than I am.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Yeah,..... his amp is taller than I am.

He does not use an amp but his Gates BC1G transmitter is.

 

[KD2GOE]

You guys do know that 3885 is in the AM window right? In fact it is the 75m AM calling frequency. Don, K4KYV is a BIG time AM operator near Clarksville Tenn. SSB operators aka Slop Buckets, are discouraged from operating in that AM window which is only 20 KHz wide from 3870-3890. Plenty of room for SSB elsewhere by comparison.

o yeah i was all over the dial that night there was no room any where LOL
it took me 1 minute to fined out who K4KYV when i did a quick Google search the dude has videos on youtube and his gear is old and impressive.