Last weekend I’ve done some work on my multi band open dipole. Seems that the wires for 40m, 20m and 10m where all too long. That way the antenna was not resonant inside those bands but lower.
So last weekend I went on the roof with a cutting tool. After a few hours tweaking the results where promising. 40 and 10 where resonant inside the band! Made a nice QSO with Rick, G8KSM on 40m. Beautiful signal and Rick told me mine was too. But 20m still wasn’t resonant inside the band. So I went up again.
Then for the third time, the wire for 40m broke. Grrrmbl! Replaced the wire, but then the whole thing went fubar. Nothing was resonant anywhere…
A little frustrated I ripped everything off the roof and placed my good old single open dipole for 20m up. First I gotta figure out a good firm construction for this mulit band dipole. I’ve got some ideas already. Will post an update on this issue soon!