| K0MAN |
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2020-10-03 | |
| No Manual Enclosed |
Time Owned: 0 to 3 months. |
| I bought this antenna for a new Ham. With his minimal shack I figured this would be a good starter antenna. We received the antenna in two weeks after order and all was there but no installation manual. No phone number for MYantennas and they did not answer my emails. We searched the internet and got it figured out from other Hams who posted online info. Installed it as inverted Vee and a 8' ground rod with a 130' counterpoise wire below the antenna. |
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| NA3P |
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2020-08-10 | |
| Best wire antenna I have ever used in 50 years as a ham. |
Time Owned: more than 12 months. |
| I upgraded to this antenna from its lower power brother, the DFHW-8010-HP. This one seems to keep fairly cool with up to 800 watts PEP. I can tune all bands between 80 and 10 except for 60. 80 resonates around 3600 so I do use a tuner on 80/75 meters. I have mine fairly low. 12 feet at the feedpoint and 35 feet at the end. I can work Europe easily on 40 meters with it. I have a very big signal up and down the east coast when on the nets. I did not use the ground lug, but have the 100 feet of LMR240 grounded where it enters the house with an 8 foot ground rod. If you cannot put up a fancy antenna, you will be happy with this one. |
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| KI5FJ |
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2020-05-12 | |
| Performance As Advertised |
Time Owned: more than 12 months. |
Transformer up 5 Ft on a fence, ground terminal connected via 5 Ft (CP) wire to Earth stake. Lightning gas tube discharge and Common Mode Choke to 100 Ft LMR-400.Inverted-L shape horizontal wire up 30 Ft. Apex 46 Ft. DX worked:80-17 Meters. In-use since June 2018.
500 Watts PEP Phone and 200 Watts FT8. Very Good Investment 73 Joe O, K I 5 F J,NNNN |
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| NJ3A |
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2020-01-20 | |
| MyAntennas EFHW-8010-2K, ACOM 1200S, 04AT Tuner, IC-7300, S-Box |
Time Owned: 0 to 3 months. |
Background: I've recently updated my ham shack in the most pleasing way. After purchasing an IC-7300 (Awesome Rig BTW), I decided I needed an all around all band (almost) wire antenna due to, how shall I say...the need to run in TOTAL STEALTH MODE due to some antiquated HOA rules...so, I choose the MyAntennas EFHW-8010 2K wire (Proper ground rod as recommended for the antenna and tuner). Perfect fit in my situation. Hardware is nicely put together, durable, easy to get up and running and works as expected. For STEALTH MODE, in the trees...it's invisible. (Look at my profile picture)...
OH..can't see the antenna...EXACTLY!
Additionally, my complete setup is an IC-7300 driving an ACOM 1200S Solid State amp into an ACOM 04AT ATU (at the feed to the MyAntennas EFHW-8010-2K) all feed with RG-213 from the shack. The ACOM 1200S is perfect for my needs. I also use an N6TV S-Box interface between the rig and the amp...(Bob sends great instructions)...Back to the amp and tuner. While I had hoped to only drive 600W output (120V mains), I actually get closer to 850W with 20W drive from the IC-7300. This is why I also added the ACOM 04AT Tuner to the team. This tuner requires no control wires and once the bands are tuned using the MyAntennas EFHW-8010-2K (ALL BANDS 10-80 were <1.3 SWR) with the tuner during setup. The memories are there and band switching is immediate as everything is linked. I'm a happy camper with the ACOM 1200S, ACOM 04AT, ICOM IC-7300, N6TV S-Box and MyAntennas EFHW-8010 2K. IT ALL JUST WORKS... BTW: The ACOM 04AT tuner is mounted out of the weather, in the wife's She Shack along the tree line where the MyAntennas EFHW-8010 2K antenna is hiding (check my profile picture). All I can say is this MyAntennas EFHW-8010-2K antenna with radio, amp and tuner is spectacular...Perfect setup...
Very satisfied with the MyAntennas EFHW-8010-2K.
Would I recommend it to others for EMCOMM, FIELD DAY, POTA etc...absolutely
Can't comment on other antennas, as this is all I have up...at this time... |
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| VE4AMN |
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2020-01-19 | |
| Electrially good, mechanically not so much |
Time Owned: more than 12 months. |
I had this lying around for a year before I hauled up to about 40' (angled at about 70 degrees, and then down to a tie point up 20 ft. This was sort of an inverted L
When I first listened it was dead with an infinite SWR. I checked the swr at the antenna, so this was not the feedline. A continuity check between the centre of the input and the antenna, showed an open circuit. So I had a choice, send in back to open the box and investigate. Shipping is such a hassle, I open the matchbox, voiding the warranty and compromising the watertightness, but what the heck.
I found that the connection between the balun and the input had broken. Very likely, this had been soldered first and then the balun fixed to the body using a plastic strap, which placed a strain on the connection. Since the unit had remained on the shelf until I put it up, it was not due to rough treatment at this end. It was not possible to secure the balun to the box using the strap once the solder connection had been fixed, so I secured it using some epoxy. Since the connection between balun and coax input is not secured using compression, the order should be to secure the balun and then solder the connection to the coax input. This removes the strain on the solder connection.
Once fixed, the antenna performs well, giving good usable bandwidth on all bands. It compares favourably to a 160-80-40 inverted vee and a cobweb for 20 - 10.
If the antenna is dead, it usually is a easy fix (opening the balun case is a pain) but a simple change in the manufacturing would eliminate this irritation. |
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| VO1XT |
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2020-01-19 | |
| Well built. Suitable for harsh climates! |
Time Owned: more than 12 months. |
I have had Myantennas EFHW-8010-2K , 14ga. for 2 years now, installed as an inverted L. Performs as advertised with good results. It is not a beam but it does work well for a simple wire antenna.
It just survived a massive winter storm, 150km wind gusts and 76 cm snow...what else needs to be said about how durable it is. Highly recommended! |
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| AD5VM |
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2019-12-25 | |
| Perfect |
Time Owned: 3 to 6 months. |
Just installed the 2kW 7510 version with 14ga wire. Replaced the 8010 1kW which has been up for the past three years and always worked great with 600 watts SSB on all bands except 75 which I needed a tuner for. With this new 7510 version I was able to sell the tuner (Palstar AT-500) which paid for the antenna twice over. I have the feedpoint on a 20’ steel pole mounted to the house, the far end is at the top of a 50’ tree. The matching box is mounted to the pole with their acrylic mounting plate and the ground stud is strapped to the pole. The pole is strapped to an 8’ ground rod at the base. Feeding the antenna with 40’ of LMR240 that snakes through the attic from the radio room to the eve of the house where the pole is mounted. I have their common mode choke right before connecting to the output of the ALS-600 amp. I run about 600 watts SSB and get flat SWR of less than 1.5:1 across all specified bands. No tuner needed anywhere. Ultra quiet, great signal reports, couldn’t be happier. Thanks Danny!
-AD5VM. |
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| K8DXX |
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2018-12-13 | |
| Very Good |
Time Owned: more than 12 months. |
Well, I started out last year with an EFHW-40-102K. It worked well but subjected my shack to a lot of RF (despite 2 ground rods and one of the manufacturer's line isolators). Still it was a well performing stealth antenna. Over the summer at our Florida QTH, a storm broke the 2 inch branch, leaving the wire in our back yard. The lawn service crew soon cut it up real good!
Upon returning to Florida, I found a better branch (8 inches thick) that was 140 feet away. I opted to upgrade to the 130 foot 14 gauge wire from Danny and just got it up today. SWR is about what you'd expect; nothing that an internal antenna matcher can't deal with. 3700-1.6:1. All of 40 essentially flat. 20 about 2.1:1. 17 FLAT. 15 about 2.5:1 and 10 resonates best high in the band. The antenna itself is 8 feet at the feed point and 40 feet at the far end. This time, NO RFI, probably because it is angled perpendicular to the house. Anyway...
I am looking forward to many hours of fun hamming this winter I think I'll do myself a favor by taking it down before heading back to Michigan in May!.
Performance seems good. Running 100 watts, had a nice QSO with guys in Ohio and Michigan. On 40 during the afternoon running 600 watts, worked a lot of the eastern US. 20 sounds promising. I have heard signals in 17 but have not pursued any.
As usual, service/delivery time were good. |
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| KE4HGP |
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2018-09-18 | |
| A+ So far |
Time Owned: 0 to 3 months. |
| Great Antenna for something that's pretty much plug n play.SWR's seem fine and TX/RX is good.No complaint's so far. |
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| K7NA |
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2018-06-16 | |
| Good Low Profile Solution That Works! |
Time Owned: 0 to 3 months. |
| A move to a new home on Whidbey Island (WA) with a nice water view and a desire not to sully that view with antennas prompted me to not build home brew but to look for something low profile that might work well. I appear to have found it in the 2KW EFHW wire antenna with upgraded #14 wire. Mine is up as a horizontal flattop 82 feet at the match box end and about 65 feet at the far end. I feed it with 125 feet of RG8X to a MyAntennas CMC130-3K RF choke, followed by a connection to a nearby ground rod and an Ameritron remote antenna switch. From the switch, another 100 feet of RG213 brings the antenna to my LDG AT1000ProII tuner in the shack. I feed a maximum of 500 watts to the antenna. On many of the bands, the SWR is quite low and the tuner is placed in “bypass” mode. For example, the SWR is about 1.2:1 at 3690kc, which is great because I tend to operate CW mostly with some SSB work in the low end of the phone band. The SWR on 40 meters is 1.1:1 at 7120kc and allows full band coverage without the tuner. On 30 meters, the SWR is at its highest at 2.7:1 but the tuner easily takes care of it. On 20 meters, the antenna resonates up in the high end of the phone band and since I only operate the CW band, I need to use the tuner. I’ve experience no issues with toroid transformer heating at full power. The antenna appears to “hear” well and I’ve worked plenty of DX on 20 and 40 meters so far. Of course, the height above ground has a lot to do with that. The antenna appears well constructed of quality materials and should last a long time. The flat black color of the wire blends easily into the background clutter and the XYL hasn’t noticed it. I’ve experienced no issues of common mode currents in the feedline such as hot mic, audio distortion, excessive noise pickup, etc. Perhaps the MyAntennas choke is to be thanked for that. This has resulted in a really usable, solid installation of an all band antenna that is XYL approved and should last a long time. |
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