Backup Antennas

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40/20m Center-Loaded Vertical
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Antenna
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Loading Coil
Shorted for 20m
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Feedpoint
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Radials
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Bottom Half
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Radials

65' 1" Off-Center Fed Dipole
long leg: 43' 5" + short leg: 21' 8"
made from an Evans W1JC shortwave antenna (sim to Princeton Sky Wire)
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Spi-Ro 4:1 balun
resonant on 40m (fundamental) plus 20m, 10m, and 6m (harmonics)


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