[Elecraft] The use of a doublet

[David Cutter]

I use mine with a 2 x 88ft doublet fed straight in and it works on all 
bands.

David
G3UNA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "THOMAS BRERETON" <w2tjo at msn.com>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:44 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] The use of a doublet


>I have long been an advocate of the center fed doublet.
> I have put them up in numerous state and even in Germany.
> Of course I have used different tuners. Folks here in this
> write about of all kinds of external tuners.
>
> May I make a radical suggestion? Use the internal K3
> antenna tuner! Now I know that most transceivers have
> internal tuners that will operate well only up to 3:1 swr.
> The K3 tuner is rated much higher than that. Indeed,
> I was very surprised how well it  works here in my station
> with my 135' foot dipole with 450 ohm ladder line and a
> balun.
> I highly recommend that one should consider the K3 tuner.
> It's a winner.
>
> Tom Brereton, W0TOM
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