40m Dipole

Despite birch trees this inverted V dipole works wonderfully

Despite birch trees this inverted V dipole works wonderfully

Speaker cable legs strung up in my 12m high flagpole, stretched by plastic clothes line with a non-stretching core of some sort.

The dipole legs are oriented sout-north giving the antenna a west-east radiation pattern.

The feed point has a 1:1 current balun.

The balun needed resoldering. The top joint was very glitchy.

The balun needed resoldering. The top joint was very glitchy.

Should be glued but I’m lazy.

Should be glued but I’m lazy.

My dirty NanoVNA showing an SWR of 1.49 at 7.08MHz, 1.27 and resonanse at 7.165MHz and 1.46 at 7.245MHz, which to mee indicates it will work without a tuner for phone on 40m.

My dirty NanoVNA showing an SWR of 1.49 at 7.08MHz, 1.27 and resonanse at 7.165MHz and 1.46 at 7.245MHz, which to mee indicates it will work without a tuner for phone on 40m.