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OK...gave up on getting the fan dipole up...TEMPORARILY! One local Ham loaned me a G5RV and another gave me an old style MFJ Versa Tuner that apparently gets passed around to newbies around here to help them get on the air...

The issue with the fan dipole is unsupported weight at the middle collector. From about 35 feet on up, pulling from two trees 160 feet apart, I am pulling "out" as much as I am pulling up. I actually broke the cover layer on mil spec 550 cord trying to get the antenna high enough.

So...I'm going to build two more antennas and then get back to re-doing the fan dipole to make it lighter and take another shot at getting it up. First, I'm going to build a full wave ladder line fed longwire for 80 meters to replace the "Shorty" G5RV so I can return it to its owner. I'll run that light antenna up to about 70 feet as I had originally planned for the fan dipole, then...

I'll build a full wave equalateral triangular loop fed by the point pointing east, aimed at Europe.

THEN I'll get back to the fan dipole project. Its just temporarily on hold...it WILL get done...and work!

<blockquote data-quote="bhayles" data-source="post: 497664" data-attributes="member: 41938">OK...gave up on getting the fan dipole up...TEMPORARILY!&nbsp; One local Ham loaned me a G5RV and another gave me an old style MFJ Versa Tuner that apparently gets passed around to newbies around here to help them get on the air...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up&nbsp; &nbsp; (y)"&nbsp; data-smilie="27"data-shortname="(y)" />The issue with the fan dipole is unsupported weight at the middle collector.&nbsp; From about 35 feet on up, pulling from two trees 160 feet apart, I am pulling &quot;out&quot; as much as I am pulling up.&nbsp; I actually broke the cover layer on mil spec 550 cord trying to get the antenna high enough.So...I&#039;m going to build two more antennas and then get back to re-doing the fan dipole to make it lighter and take another shot at getting it up.&nbsp; First, I&#039;m going to build a full wave ladder line fed longwire for 80 meters to replace the &quot;Shorty&quot; G5RV so I can return it to its owner.&nbsp; I&#039;ll run that light antenna up to about 70 feet as I had originally planned for the fan dipole, then...I&#039;ll build a full wave equalateral triangular loop fed by the point pointing east, aimed at Europe.THEN I&#039;ll get back to the fan dipole project.&nbsp; Its just temporarily on hold...it WILL get done...and work!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bhayles, post: 497664, member: 41938"] OK...gave up on getting the fan dipole up...TEMPORARILY! One local Ham loaned me a G5RV and another gave me an old style MFJ Versa Tuner that apparently gets passed around to newbies around here to help them get on the air...(y) The issue with the fan dipole is unsupported weight at the middle collector. From about 35 feet on up, pulling from two trees 160 feet apart, I am pulling "out" as much as I am pulling up. I actually broke the cover layer on mil spec 550 cord trying to get the antenna high enough. So...I'm going to build two more antennas and then get back to re-doing the fan dipole to make it lighter and take another shot at getting it up. First, I'm going to build a full wave ladder line fed longwire for 80 meters to replace the "Shorty" G5RV so I can return it to its owner. I'll run that light antenna up to about 70 feet as I had originally planned for the fan dipole, then... I'll build a full wave equalateral triangular loop fed by the point pointing east, aimed at Europe. THEN I'll get back to the fan dipole project. Its just temporarily on hold...it WILL get done...and work! [/QUOTE]

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