[Elecraft] K4 Experience

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Tue Jul 6 22:57:07 EDT 2021


On 7/5/2021 9:33 PM, Robert G Strickland via Elecraft wrote:
> Does the choke cause a significant sag in the antenna? For 40m maybe 
> not; my 80m dipole with a choke looks like a V antenna, and I'm 
> reluctant to increase the tension in the support ropes to the point 
> where the the antenna starts to flatten out.

Weight for the chokes is part of the tables in the 2018 Cookbook. I have 
100# weights on the support rope for my dipoles (they're up 125 ft, fed 
with RG11).

73, Jim K9YC



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