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Reviews For: EZ WIRE END FED ANTENNA

Category: Antennas: HF: Verticals; Wire; Loop

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Review Summary For : EZ WIRE END FED ANTENNA
Reviews: 13MSRP: 55 Euro
Description:
A 16 Meter long end fed Antenna works all bands including 160 meter.
Product is in production
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CHARLA Rating: 2009-10-07
Much better Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
An update for the EZwire antenna of yesterday. Since my last review I have improved matters considerably by a series of earthing straps which I thought were not needed. It now peforms much better. It's like an inverted L with earth to the balun However I would have thought this antenna should perform with out this additional earthing.
W2KLS Rating: 2009-05-30
a good end fed long wire antenna Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I bought this antenna (the longer one at 32m {105ft}) mainly to see how it would work in a space restricted property on 40m and 80m. I have a Cushcraft R-6000 vertical for 6m-20m. The EZ-Wire is set up as follows: the feed point is at 35 ft at the top of my house sloping down to about 13 ft and then sloping back up at 90dgs to about 18 ft. I use either the auto tuner in my TS-850 or a Drake MN-4 for my TS-830. The 850 tunes the wire easily on all bands. The best swr reading at 80m using the TS-830 is a 1:1.5 (the best that tuner can do) But tunes wonderfully on 20m-40m. I received the following reports using only 100w in poor band conditions between 5/27 and 5/30/09:
80m VE1CKR - 5/9+, VE1LEO 5/9, and great reports across the USA
40m: HK1NK:5/6, UA3GUX:5/5, USA stations: 5/5 - 5/9+
20M: UR3IFD:5/7, EA8YB:5/7, IZ8IXG:5/7, RZ3EC:5/9, EA3LI:5/7, and MI0SAI:5/7, USA stations: 5/5 - 5/9+

Ideally, the antenna would probably get better reports if it were positioned higher. The TS-850sat tunes the wire on 160m, but I am very rarely there. Overall, I am very pleased with the antenna.


KE2RR Rating: 2009-02-09
one year Time Owned: 6 to 12 months.
I have used this for a year now, on all bands, and MARS freq. Tunes great with a LDG 7000 tuner, consistantly working the US from Germany on all freq. My G5RV doesnt even get close to the performance I get from this short line.