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Amp & Antenna work

Naysayer

Solder Balls
Mar 6, 2020
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Amp working good on bench without an ATU. Been rewinding inductors like an Elf. New band switch, 6 inductor settings. Need antenna work before qro. Preparing to revise the EFHW. Currently, it's a 2 core (240 size) 49:1 unun feeding approx 27' counterpoise horizontal in-line with 70' main wire). Original plan was add another core and Receive preamp board which required a new enclosure & another relay with another pair power wire. While I'm up there- temp install a Guanella 4:1 balun (two 140 cores w/ RG316) experiment to see if an OCF is better use of the same wire.

EDIT: SWR Analyzer shows good. A day on the roof soon.
 

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