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Old 13th Sep 2019, 8:24 pm   #39
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Default Re: Antenna recommendation for 40 and 80M bands

Whatever you do, don't go for the "End-fed Zepp" design - despite being published in loads of antenna-handbooks for 50+ years it "Doesn't work" either in theory or practice.

Mr. Moxon G6XN reported such in his "HF Antennas for all locations" book in the 1960s, despite which the design still shows-up regularly.

There *ARE* ways to make an end-fed half-wave antenna work well; they just don't involve ladder-line feeder with one end 'terminated' into the infinity of free-space!
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