[Elecraft] Six-meter Antenna Tuner

[Greg - AB7R]

Or just buile a resonant antenna for 6M.  I found some simple plans for building a nice and sturdy 2-
element moxon that has been working just great form me on 6M.  It does not have to be up very high and 
you can turn it with a simple lightweight TV rotor.  No tuner needed with it 50.0-52.0 MHz.

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73,
Greg - AB7R
Whidbey Island WA
NA-065


On Mon Dec  8  4:10 , "Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy"  sent:

>Hank,
>
>My suggestion is use a classic link coupled balanced "antenna tuner". If you 
>cannot find one to buy the cost of building one for 6m at the 100w power 
>level should not be very high. The third edition of 'The Radio Amateur's VHF 
>Manual' (ARRL) contains a couple of examples for use at other power levels, 
>please let me know off-list if you would like to see these.
>
>An eighty metre dipole should work well on 6m in certain directions, after 
>all it is a centre fed 7 wavelength (approx) longwire at 6m. The horizontal 
>pattern should have 4 narrow major lobes, 10 narrow secondary lobes and deep 
>nulls off the ends.
>
>73,
>Geoff
>GM4ESD
>
>
>W6SX Hank Garretson wrote on Monday, December 08, 2008 at 3:23 AM
>
>> Since it is part of the K3 package, I would like to try six meters.  My 
>> one and only antenna is an eighty-meter dipole 46 feet above ground fed 
>> with poly ladder-line.  I'm looking for suggestions for a 100-watt coupler 
>> that will tune a balanced-feedline antenna at 50 MHz.  I do not have the 
>> K3 ATU and am looking for something considerably less expensive.
>>
>> All ideas are welcome, but please don't suggest some other antenna.  My 
>> antenna is what it is.  Because of town esthetics and very harsh winter 
>> weather I'm lucky to have the antenna at all. 
>
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