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vernonott
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:10 am: | 
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307 : Have you ever tryed to run a CB on a dipole antenna?If you have how did it work? |
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| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2001 - 5:28 am: |
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it works quite well! ive made several 1/2 wave dipole antennas cut for 11 meterband.my brother in law uses one at work to talk on and gets out very well in the directions he's aimed at."bidirectional antenna".there cheap good performers. |
honky tonk man 593 outta ny
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 11:08 pm: |
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works great for skip in a inverted v shape. i am still using 1 due to my apartment complex problems. the do work and work well on sideband but very limited for locals. i run ham and cb on the diapole and it all works. 8.5 feet on each side of the coax. in other words the center copper piece solder on 8.5 feet of copper and run it out then solder 8.5 feet of copper wire onto the coax shield and string it out. i like to use a balun with 1to 1 match which makes it so all you have to do is screw the coax on. hey good luck. |
International Mudduck 262
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 12:54 pm: |
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I used a 1/2 wave horizontal dipole for a while on 11 meters. It worked fairly well for DX. Only so-so preformance locally because most everyone runs vertically. |
707
| | Posted on Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 3:41 am: |
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I use a manufactured 10m dipole, folded to inverted L config, due to apartment restrictions. Interestingly, though the antenna is cut for center band 10m, when you fold it to L, the thing is matched better than 1.3:1 across 26.5 to 28.5 It's not up very high either, with the end of the vertical leg only a foot off the concrete patio base. Seems to work nicely, considering the height. No local coverage, but good dx. I'll be listening for you guys this weekend. If you start to hear S. Texas come in, tune over to 38 lsb and give me a shout. We'll take it from there ;-) |
Poullutionpete
| | Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 11:49 pm: |
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hi all I was just wondering if a person could make a dipole ant. cut for the 11 meter band
that is a full wave length that is about 36 foot long give or take a inch a two and will it tune
up good enough to work on the 11 meter band ? |
Bruce
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 4:54 am: |
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you could but a full wave dipole would have a strange pattern and a high imp. My 40 - 10 meter dipole is a 1/4 wave on 40 3/4 wave on 15 ( traped ) 1/4 wave on 20 meters and 1.5 waves on 10 meters. Now there is a high gain antenna known as a rombic it is MANY waves long the longer the better and more gain the longer it is.
here is one site ....
http://www.antenna.it/antennas7.htm
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Bruce
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 5:40 am: |
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more info
http://members.fortunecity.com/xe1bef/dipoles-antennas.htm
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Highlander
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 5:45 pm: |
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I'll bet a folded dipole for 11 meter would work. That would be a full wavelengh. |
Poullutionpete
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 12:25 am: |
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Bruce,
thanks for the web addy for the wire ant.
I just was just wondering if you could make one thats end feed and say one side half wave and the outher side a quarter wave for the ground side and would the be workable ? |
Bruce
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 2:57 pm: |
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hummmmm good question ?
http://home.teleport.com/~nb6z/nb6zep.htm
http://kk1cw.tripod.com/buildyourownwireant.html
http://www.bencher.com/pdf_download.html
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Bigbob
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 6:38 pm: |
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YES! |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 11:33 pm: |
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P.Pete,the yes was for you. |
Poullutionpete
| | Posted on Friday, September 26, 2003 - 1:30 pm: |
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Bigbob;
Cool, the reason the that I asked was I thought it would be easer to hook up than to have the coax running from the center and not have the center to be mounted to a pole ect.and have the coax flopping around in the wind ect. |
Climber
| | Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 12:25 am: |
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Hello,
Any links to people who sell these dipole antenna's as kits? I have seen the one's on e-bay. Looking for something elswhere to compaire.
Thanks,
Climber |
Bruce
| | Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 1:35 am: |
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I dont know if any of these will help
http://www.bwantennas.com/
http://www.cqcqcq.com/sigma.html
http://www.hy-gain.com/products.php?prodid=DP-19PD
http://www.alphadeltacom.com/pg1.htm
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Climber
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - 12:17 am: |
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Bruce,
Thanks again buddy,
Your friend
Climber |
Crafter
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - 9:06 pm: |
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Bruce I make all my wire antennas a full wave, sure does take up space on 80 meters. Never noticed the patterns really. Only use my wire's on DX though. I have used 11m V long wires before years ago worked very well. Even forgot to switch back to my moonraker once and ran 1500 watts though a antenna about 3 foot from me and my friends sure cleared out the room fast, thats another story though. |
