Palomar Engineers Fan Dipole kit for 80 and 40 meters. Choose 500, 1500 or 5000 watts PEP option. 135 feet wide for 80 meters and 66 feet wide for 40 meters. For best results install so end are 5 feet apart and as high as possible.
Dipole wire kits come assembled to selected balun - just add coax and raise with paracord and use our pulleys for ease of installation. Keep each dipole end approximately 36 inches minimum apart if possible. Adjust 80 meter length first and then 40 meter length as there will be some interaction with each other.
You can also add additional option dipole kits. Just add to cart in addition to this antenna. Be sure to space ends 3-5 feet away from the other dipoles. Tune the lowest frequency first, then next highest, etc.
If you want different band combinations, choose the dipole wire kits needed and then select the Bullet-1B-500, CB-1-150EB or CB-1-5000EB for 500/1500/5000 watts rating.
You can have more than 2 bands on a fan dipole, just select an additional band using our convenient Dipole Wire Kits!
Also make sure you connect a good RF ground to the transceiver ground post.
Note to Flex Radio users: Use snap on ferrites for firewire cable, speaker cable and mic cable, Ring ferrites for Antenna output and DC power.
For additional RFI suppression, use a feed line choke at the antenna to suppress common current on the coax feed line – see our store for feed line choke alternatives for use at the antenna.
If you use a linear amplifier we have RFI kits for linear amplifiers that help suppress RFI in your shack or in your neighbor’s house.