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Author Topic: Looking for suggestions for a directional antenna for circa 8 MHz  (Read 3853 times)

Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Re: Looking for suggestions for a directional antenna for circa 8 MHz
« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2018, 1833 UTC »
Ooooh yeah a rhombic! With the reentrant termination developed by the enguneers at VOA! Reentrant as they fed the sig back to the feedpoint via a phasing line so no need for a power wasting load as found in every other rhomby. However, I fear a rhombic would please a wife less well than the other candidates mentioned.

Never a problem, I have carte blanche to install any antennas I wish. My wife even listens to the occasional pirate   8)
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Re: Looking for suggestions for a directional antenna for circa 8 MHz
« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2018, 2001 UTC »
Never a problem, I have carte blanche to install any antennas I wish. My wife even listens to the occasional pirate   8)

I share your wealth. :) I'm usually more picky about how the antenna looks than my wife is. She is fine with whatever I put up.
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