Originally posted by abcd567
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The only part I am not real happy with right now is attaching the feed. I used RG 6 to feed it and with the element spacing so small there is not much room to fiddle around with soldering the cable.. and i don't think anyone can get solder to stick to the braid on RG6.. I need to find a smaller cable, maybe RG59 with copper braid..
Also... some of the websites about Jpoles mention making 5 loops in the feed coax to make a balun.. something about keeping energy off of the shield.. I have not tried that yet... might only be important for VSWR when transmitting.
Like I said a few posts back.. It might not be technically correct.. might not have good SWR or what ever.. but it seems to work and I am not complaining about that :-)
:-) I was worried that the first one might have just been a happy mistake .... so I made 2 more to make sure that they acted the same :-)
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