[Elecraft] OCF antennas

[Tony Estep]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV <olinger at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> OCF antennas, under miscellaneous names, have been working fine...
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Of course. Please note that the Elecraft product line was originally
designed to be used with an end-fed wire (the ultimate in off-center
feed), or with a long wire fed against a short counterpoise. It's
pretty far-fetched to say that OCF antenna are no good -- they radiate
and they receive. I worked 260 countries in a year with an OCF antenna
that I used on all bands 80-10.

An OCF antenna may require more knowledge from its user than a
coax-fed dipole, but that doesn't mean it won't work. If you set it up
properly it will work. If you don't, RF will come into your shack and
bite you, and you'll be unhappy. But there's a lot of ham gear that
doesn't give good results when set up wrong.

Tony KT0NY


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