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GW4PJQ	Rating: 5/5	Nov 5, 2009 16:11	Send this review to a friend!
good value			Time owned: more than 12 months
I have had two of these now and they are truly great value. The lack of a balun would not explain G8DHQs horrendously poor matching issues. I'm a bit surprised to see a G8 make such a comment, there must be either a fault with the antenna or the analyser. There is absolutely no need to use a balun when feeding a dipole with coax. The side connected to the braid is just a counterpoise and power is induced into it from the “driven” side. My only quibble with this antenna is; the 3:1 bandwidth on 80m is only 100 kHz. I take about ten turns off the coil and lengthen the 80m stub and that gives me all the coverage I need on 80m. I have no problems getting a 1:1 match at resonance. BUY ONE! Oh yes it works very well on 15m as well because it is a one and a half wave dipole on that band. As I say just buy one!

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