[Antennas] Butternut HF6V

[Ray Brown]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David C. Hallam" <dhallam at knology.net>


> Because the SWR is out of whack on all bands, I am taking my HF6V 
> antenna for a clean up and retuning.  I wonder if it is necessary to 
> reinstall the 30M trap.  Since tuning 40M involves repositioning the 30M 
> trap, I gather it affects bands other than 30M and the antenna will not 
> work without it being in place.  Does anyone have any experience?

  Some... I have one in my back yard and one at work. The one at home
is fine for working DX, but I need to put a 80m dipole in place of the one
at work, since its' main job is to talk to stations within 300 miles. But that's
another story. :-)

  First thing before you disassemble it, make scribe marks of where the
straps were. That'll help a lot in tuning it back up.

  And double-check the capacitors. The one at work has this strange tendancy
for one of the screws to vibrate out and fall down out of the antenna and onto
the asphalt roof. And I think it was the 40m cap. Anyway, test them to make
sure that they didn't blow to be a dead short or worse, wide open.

  We'll talk when you get back. :-)


                Ray, KB0STN