[Elecraft] Forty Meter SSB

[Bill Frantz]

I found when I built a single wire dipole for 40M it didn't have 
a low enough SWR across the band for my preferences at the time. 
I fixed the problem by using two wires, spaced about 10cm, 4" 
apart for the elements. They join in the middle at the common 
mode choke and just loop back at the ends. This lowers the Q of 
the antenna enough so it satisfied my SWR goals.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 11/22/21 at 1:45 PM, jim at audiosystemsgroup.com (Jim Brown) wrote:

>On 11/21/21 at 1:49 PM, FlatHat at comcast.net (Richard) wrote:
>
>>Is there any area within the 40-meter SSB segment where DX 
>>tends to congregate or appear? I ask this for antenna tuning purposes.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Richard — W4KBX
>
>A half-wave dipole tuned to resonate in the middle of the band 
>will have very manageable VSWR over the entire band.

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