Five Wire Antennas Vying for Reference Station (#314)

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This is post 2413 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas.

In this video, David Casler (KE0OG) compares several popular wire antennas worthy of being your main station antenna.

These antennas include:

A homemade dipole

MFJ-2010 (Off Center Fed Dipole)

MFJ-17754 (40m-20m) trapped dipole

Alpha Delta DX-EE (40m-10m) trapped/fan dipole

My Antenna (80m-6m) end-fed dipole.

Here are some of Dave's observations and comments:

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