Craig KD0TXL...best antenna

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7-band, no tuner required, Buckmaster OCF dipole...except no substitutes. Built like a tank's tank. Mine has been up for years thru high winds (100mph+), ice storms as well as asteroid & comet impacts. Very low to flat SWR on all bands that it's designed to operate on. Great signal reports worldwide. Mine is installed as an inverted V. Get one. Thank me later. You're welcome in advance.

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[Wes (N7WS)]

Oh please.  The OP is a beginner...don't feed him BS.

On 12/7/2015 8:28 PM, Tom Fitzgerald via Elecraft wrote:
> 7-band, no tuner required, Buckmaster OCF dipole...except no substitutes. Built like a tank's tank. Mine has been up for years thru high winds (100mph+), ice storms as well as asteroid & comet impacts. Very low to flat SWR on all bands that it's designed to operate on. Great signal reports worldwide. Mine is installed as an inverted V. Get one. Thank me later. You're welcome in advance.
>
> kd0bcf

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[Phil Wheeler-2]

Yes, wouldn't want him to believe it will
withstand "asteroid & comet impacts" :-)

But in fairness, the reviews of this antenna at
eHam are surprisingly positive:
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/5838

One of my earliest antennas, in the 1954-55
timeframe was a gerrymandered classical Windom
with a single wire feed, no transformers, etc. --
and one not very high up. Since I didn't know any
better, it worked great and I worked lots of DX
running 75 Watts (DC input power) on 40-80 CW. Of
course, later I learned that it's a very poor
antenna so I'd never use one now ;-)

73, Phil W7OX

On 12/7/15 7:40 PM, Wes (N7WS) wrote:

> Oh please.  The OP is a beginner...don't feed
> him BS.
>
> On 12/7/2015 8:28 PM, Tom Fitzgerald via
> Elecraft wrote:
>> 7-band, no tuner required, Buckmaster OCF
>> dipole...except no substitutes. Built like a
>> tank's tank. Mine has been up for years thru
>> high winds (100mph+), ice storms as well as
>> asteroid & comet impacts. Very low to flat SWR
>> on all bands that it's designed to operate on.
>> Great signal reports worldwide. Mine is
>> installed as an inverted V. Get one. Thank me
>> later. You're welcome in advance.
>>
>> kd0bcf

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[Rick Stealey]

7-band, no tuner required,


It's an 80 meter dipole, off center fed.
It has a broad swr bandwidth on 80 meters.  What does that mean?

Rick  K2XT
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[Rick Stealey]

> It has a broad swr bandwidth on 80 meters.  What does that mean?


Please, don't take my comment seriously.  It was tongue in cheek.  There is one installed here serving a remote Elecraft station.
On at least one band, 17 meters, and one simple test, the Steppir at 45 feet beats the Buckmaster by 30 db!
Other bands, different results.  The Buckmaster never wins compared to inverted vees though, but it DOES tune up on multiple bands.  It and the Elecraft tuner get along fine, so it serves its purpose (which is NOT high performance).

Rick  K2XT
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[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ]

Lot's of good info, but let's end this thread under its multiple headings now in
the interest of reducing email overload for others, as it has certainly exceeded
the near term posting volume limit for a single topic.

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On 12/8/2015 9:48 AM, Jim Rodenkirch wrote:

> Anyone touting a 7 band, no tuner required antenna as efficient and a real
> barn burner failed to complete....no, no, no, no....make that failed to even
> start the Antenna Basics 101 course of instruction!
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[Jerry Moore]

Most antennas are a compromise of sorts whether it's installation height, length,  material. .etc. If you actually understand the physics and associated math in addition to propagation then you innately understand there's no one perfect antenna for everyone in the real world. When you're starting out is suggest keeping it simple and cheap. Get on the air and improve things as you gain knowledge and skills to best analyze your QTH and finances. A properly installed dipole can work the world. An OCF dipole design just allows impedance matching on multiple bands, but,  it's primarily resonant on one band. You can achieve the same effect with a dipole cut for the lowest band you wish to work; fed with ladder line and a tuner, get the antenna as high as you reasonably can. Worry with towers,  verticals,  ...etc later after you've had time to enjoy the hobby.  You can work the world literally with just a simple wire antenna. Personally I use the Buckmaster ocf 7 bands antenna broad
 side to Europe.
Jer

On December 8, 2015 12:48:16 PM EST, Jim Rodenkirch <[hidden email]> wrote:

>Anyone touting a 7 band, no tuner required antenna as efficient and a
>real
>barn burner failed to complete....no, no, no, no....make that failed to
>even
>start the Antenna Basics 101 course of instruction!
>
>Sheesh......
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