[Elecraft] Fw: ADD THE LOW BANDS TO YOUR STEPPIR

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Well, I do now, I decided it was time I read QST, at least for a year.

So not only have you written an interesting article, but you've gained ARRL
another member!


On 5/1/08 19:48, "David Ferrington, M0XDF" <M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk> sent:

> I don't subscribe to QST, but once it's come out, perhaps you could post the
> article?
> 
> 
> On 5/1/08 18:05, "George Badger" <gbadger at sbcglobal.net> sent:
> 
>> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>> From: George Badger <gbadger at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: SteppIR at yahoogroups.net
>> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2008 10:30:27 PM
>> Subject: ADD THE LOW BANDS TO YOUR STEPPIR
>> 
>> About a year ago I put up my 3 el. SteppIR. It is a great antenna. To add low
>> band capability I put a loop over the SteppIR in the plane of the SteppIR
>> boom. The addition works like gangbusters on 30, 40, 60, 75/80 and 160. The
>> loop also works as a rotatable 160 RX antenna with 30 dB F/B ratio.
>> The addition is so simple and effective I wrote an article describing it for
>> QST. It is in the current [Feb.] issue.
>> Keep an eye out for the article.
>> 73
>> George  W6TC

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