Saturday, December 29, 2018

Link Dipole Project

I wanted to make a link dipole that I can take on SOTA activations.  I wanted it to be light.  To that end I made some wire winders (17g)  that are less than half the weight of the SOTABeams plastic wire winders (37g).  The winders are made from Spanish Cedar.   The antenna (without the feedline) comes in at 144g.  The antenna covers 4 bands 60-40-30-20m bands.  This version is without the 60m add-on. This can be compared to:

LNR EFHW Trail Friendly 40-20-10 at 182g
LNR MTR 40-30-20 at 200g

The 60m add on only adds 13g for the additional 10 feet of wire per leg. Guy rope would add additional grams.






The version above has the 60m links added plus some guy rope.

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