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Made a wire inverted V dipole last year that worked well out of 12ga. stranded, insulated wire with a 1:1 balun between the two legs. Bought the 500 watt rated balun from Amazon. It makes the dipole connection to the coax really simple.
This year I thought I'd try making one with two 102" steel...
I have two antennas, a 2016 Sirio ground plane and a Sirio 3 element yagi.
When I am using the gp my power meter out of a 500 watt linear shows a pep on ssb of 300 with an initial swing up to 400 watts then dropping back to around 300 as I continue talking. Then on the 3 element yagi it shows...
Compared to most of you guys I'm just barely in the game.
In my defense I'm just coming back to the hobby after about a 40 yr. layoff doing other things.
Got too old to do the other things anymore so I've come back to a thing I've missed ever since I sold my trucks and went on to those 'other...
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