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> The request was in response to a statement that the KAT-500 was not
> required if an all band antenna was used. The challenge was to name an
> antenna that will give full coverage WITHOUT TUNER making the KAT-500
> superfluous. Of course, full coverage of 20 is 14.0 to 14.35 and 80 and 160
> are included. Alpha-Delta makes nice products, but achieving full coverage
> on 160, 80, 20 and 10 is elusive. Maybe you only work CW and don't care
> about the phone band or 10 meter FM, but if so, you don't require full
> coverage. Even 40 requires you to accept a pretty high SWR at the ends to
> cover the whole 40 meter band. LPs can be good for broad banding, but even
> the RCA LPs that I saw on Guam with the rotors that weighed about a ton only
> covered 7.0 MHz and up.
>
> Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
> K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Dave Wright <
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> *To:*
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> *Sent:* Wed, July 13, 2011 11:43:49 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 and KAT500 Ports
>
> I'll second that Alpha-Delta reference. Full band coverage on 40/20/15/10,
> plus about 100kHz on 75/80, partial-full coverage on 17m although it isn't
> cut for it, and some 6m as well. Full coverage 80m-6m with tuner...and
> even
> 160m, but the efficiency has to be terrible.
>
> And easily handles 500w+
>
> 73
>
> Dave
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ken - K0PP <
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>
> >
> > Hi Cookie,
> >
> > My Alpha-Delta pretty much meets the no-tuner-needed
> > requirement. It's just a fan dipole with another name. (:-)
> > I'm aware of at least five of them in this sparsely ham
> > populated area. It -is- bandwidth limited on 80/75, but
> > mine's cut for 3550.
> >
> > My station is often used in major contests (KE7X) and
> > we put up the AD as a 2nd station antenna that doesn't
> > need any attention ... just switch to it and go.
> >
> > It's extremely well-made, but very heavy. It's at 65',
> > help up with 3/8" Dacron rope and heavy pulleys.
> >
> > 73! Ken - K0PP
> >
> >
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