Off Center Fed Dipole Antenna, 160-6 Meters, 500/1.5KW/5KW PEP rated, - FREE shipping in USA
The PAL-OCF16006 covers 160-80-60-40-30-20-17-15-12-10-6 meters in a length of 260 feet and consists of dual OCF antennas in parallel. On many bands, no antenna tuner is needed and switching bands is as easy as changing the band on the radio. Super convenient and quick – great for contest operation! Choose 500, 1500 or 5000 watts PEP power levels.
Uses hybrid balun containing wide band 4:1 transformer + 1:1 common mode feed line choke to keep all your power on the antenna and off the feed line coax outer conductor!
Also much quieter than end fed half wave antennas!
INSTALLATION
For best results support balun at 30+ feet and ends over 15 feet. Higher heights will give better results on the low bands. Angle of feed each side must be great than 45 degrees or 120 – 180 degrees total between each side preferred. Any length of 50 ohm feed line ok but longer feed lines over 50 feet may show reduced SWR on some bands due to losses in feed line and soil conductivity, nearby objects, etc. Due to local ground conditions, antenna height and feed line length, SWR may vary from samples shown and an internal or external antenna tuner may be required or some bands to bring SWR at end of feed line to acceptable levels. Overall length is 260 feet (205 feet and 55 feet sides).
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Need an END FED antenna covering the same bands and only requiring two supports rather than three? Check out the BAS-155-xxx series
These antennas are custom made per order so please allow 10 days shipment after order.
Due to many requests for antenna static bleeders, we have developed a product line of static bleeders for coax and for ladder line applications. Static electricity is caused by many situations including high desert wind, atmospheric conditions, etc. You may hear static crashes or have a buildup of static electricity that my be annoying during a radio conversation and it may be harmful to solid state electronics if high voltages are present on the RF input to your equipment.
A static “Bleeder” which shorts the direct static voltage to ground while leaving the RF frequency voltage unaffected if very beneficial particularly to those operations in desert conditions where low humidity, high static buildup are quite common. The SB-1 and SB-2 coax static bleeders work on coax line and the SB-3 static bleeder is meant for ladder line.