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ON4WIY
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Rating: 0/5
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Aug 9, 2010 02:49
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BIG 0 !
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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Keep your hands of! swr.... not good on any band.
I'll tried several configurations and after a couple days I gave it up !
The same problem by my friend so I'am not alone....
We also tried with 20 m long wire agn 0.
So we decided to give it away to a swl his experience was the same :not good at all just junk!!!
Save your money and make some homebrew stuff.
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KD7RDZI2
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Rating: 0/5
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Apr 20, 2009 15:20
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mechanically awful
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I will comment on the WIMO Model 11370 which is not weatherproof and the use additional protection when using outdoors is advised.
I completely wrapped it with coax seal type of tape and put close the roof as a noise antenna to be used with my main antenna and the MFJ noise canceller unit. With the coax seal became virtually waterproof and I thought it was a good buy. It was not! The MTFT simply disassembled itself from the bottom. The bottom of the MTFT is just pressed into a cylinder and it is so easy the two thing just separate each other (a small toroid is inside). If I were the seller, I would be reluctant to sell a mechanically so weak unit.
As for performance WIMO says that can be used with reduced efficiency up to 150 MHz. I don't agree with this statement. As a receiving antenna I would say the upper limit is the 6 meters band.
A final note: this matching transformer costs about 59 euro. On the market there are alternatives especially nowadays. If you want to use a balun to transmit, the BC-7 by Barker and Williamson is totally another class and mechanically sturdy made. If you want to use a matching transformer like the MTFT, simply the classic choice of the MLB by RF-Systems is in my view a so much better choice: the MLB by RF-Systems is mechanically so better built and so much more wideband that can be used up to 40-50Mhz from 100Khz!!!
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G0CJM
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Rating: 5/5
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Nov 1, 2006 05:43
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Excellent value
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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Taken delivery of the above today. Designed to be fitted between tx/rx coax and wire indoors. With the exception of 7Mhz It has tuned with a 1:1:5 swr from 1.8-50Mhz For me, with a ver small garden only fifteen feet in diameter, this is great. May i recommend its use to others. The wire must be at least 20ft long.
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