[Antennas] 80m dipole center connectors?

Thu, 06 Feb 2003 10:42:25 -0800

I have seen and used some very good centre connectors for a dipole.  They 
were home made out of 2 pieces of Lexan (Plexiglas etc or whatever). Some 
just had one peice. They were in a triangular shape, had relief connexion 
for the dangling coax.  I like the 1 piece for high band and one dipole.  A 
local ham made a 10, 15, 20 under strung with the plastic for centre 
separator and connector and same for speaders with a lead fishing weight 
and the final insulator.  Works fine.

Pick up scraps from your local window shop.  Especially if you have your 
windsheild reparied there.

Chris opr VE7HCB

At 06:36 AM 2003-02-05 -0500, Pastor-kc1di wrote:
>Hi Paul ,
>I always had good sucess with the old (what I called bulkhead type center
>connectors) Believe they were sold by the original Hy-Gain Company and we
>used they in the Military.  They were very strong and look a bit like a
>metal tri-angle with a zillion bolts and nuts around the edges.  But they
>were strong.
>
>Found a Page they still sell them (MFJ now owns Hygain) 29.95.  you can look
>at the manual on line at http://www.hy-gain.com/products.php?prodid=C-1
>
>Good Luck and let us know what you finally choose so others may know for the
>future.
>73 Dave kc1di
>
>
>-------Original Message-------
>
>From: Paul B. Peters, VE7AVV
>Date: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 01:02:07
>To: Antennas
>Subject: [Antennas] 80m dipole center connectors?
>
>I'm in the process of building 2 new 80m dipoles. At a height of 110' and
>125' respectively, they are at right angles to each other. Given I'm feeding
>these with RG213, I wonder what suggestions I might gather from the group
>about the choice of center connector. I have some older (but brand new)
>Budwig units and a couple of 1:1 baluns. In each case, my concern is the
>weight of 110' of coax hanging on the connector. Your thoughts would be
>appreciated.
>
>73 de Paul, VE7AVV
>StoneyGround Station
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