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Review Summary For : CCD Antennas
Reviews: 12MSRP: 189.95
Description:
CCD means Controlled Current Distribution. This is a full wave dipole (or can be a long wire
style) that has a series of capacitors mounted along the wire on specially designed boards.
The capacitors allow us to have a impedance that is able to be matched to ladder line or baluns
while having an antenna about twice as long as a standard half wave dipole. Having a 230'
antenna resonant on 40 meters and 80 meters, or a 114' antenna on 20 and 40 that are fairly flat SWR wise provides
some enhanced results. The website has a lot of documentation about the CCD with how and
why it works so well.
Product is not in production
More Info: http://www.ccdantennas.com/CCD/
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00124.6
N6AQ Rating: 2009-08-21
Great Antenna! Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Ok guys this is no B.S on this antenna. I have had it up for about 1 month now and have mostly been rag-chewing. Just recently I started to DX on 40 meters. Let me tell you I am so impressed by this CCD antenna. Here are some reports, Venezuela 59+20, Buenos Aires Argentina 59+10 and 7Z1CQ Saudi Arabia 58 all these contacts were made at 1kw and the 80/40. The CCD is at 85’ and this is a performer, I have never had an antenna that worked like this. I have no affiliation with this company, just passing the word.
Frank Sellers N6AQ
http://www.n6aq.com
W5JFW Rating: 2009-07-29
Quiet and Durable Time Owned: more than 12 months.
Alot of information has been exchanged about how well a CCD Antenna transmitts and how they don't really seem to care how they are strung up, and that's all true in my experience. Much of the time I don't even turn the AMP on and get reports that my station very readable. I've had them high and low and crooked and up against stuff with good to great great results. About three years ago I purchased a 80 meter 240 foot long CCD from CCD Antennas.com and have it up 50 feet and the ends at 20 feet. When it is real noisy and I can't hear anything but the strongest signals on my GRV5 which goes the other way I switch over to the CCD and it is much more quiet with weaker signals able to be heard. What I didn't like about this antenna is it only held an inch of ice in two tree breaking ice storms in 2006 and 2008. In both storms each leg came down and it was 10 days or so before the ice thawed out enough to get it up off the ground. In both cases neither did the wire or the boards break. The wire simply just pulled out of a solder joint with not a strand broken. I re-soldered both legs and put her back up and none the worse for wear. Worked like it did when it was new. I'm told the new dual band CCD's have larger solder pads on the boards so maybe it will hold 2 inches of ice this winter and I'm going to get me one and see. If you are looking for a tough, quiet wire antenna and don,t care if you get pile ups (keep your amp off) then get you a CCD from CCD antennas. It's a good place to shop.