[Antennas] Coax Trap: to be or not to be ... this is the question

[Ed]

Juan, I use a coax trap for an 80/160 Inv L. It works well and the bandwidth
on 80 is about 100 kc's for the 2.1 points. I see no real loss of power on
either band and have quite a few DX QSO's in the log. Overall to me it is
the way to go. A lot less expensive and quite a bit easier to buy or build.
The problem with W8JI's theory, he doesn't need or use coax traps, therefore
I do not put much thought to his theory on performance. Hopefully some
everday users can give you more of an idea.

Ed W3NR



> Recently I started to experiment with Coax Traps in a Invee for 30, 40 and
> 80m. It seems that it works fine however I have received contradictory
> about the performance of COAX TRAPS versus normal TRAPS, lossy versus Q,
etc...



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