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Hot 10-80 super slinky hf ham radio dx dipole antenna
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with built in coax choke balun
The Air-wound Coax Choke Balun also prevents your coax feedline from radiating spurious signals and helps transfer all the RF to the antenna thereby reducing Radio Frequency and Television Interferendce (TFI & TVI). Of course, all of the electrical connections are soldered using only the finest rosin core electrical solder. This antenna comes with an air-wound coax choke balun that has an SO-239 connector on the other end for easy connection to your own coax. *This LIMITED SPACE ANTENNA works on 80 through 6 meters with a good antenna tuner.
The 2-80 can also be used inside with the center insulator in a corner and the Slinkies strung along the ceiling wall junction or down to the wall floor junction in the corners of the room.
A small diameter Dacron or polyester rope or even weed eater line should be strung through the center of the entire antenna for support and to keep the heavier center from sagging. We shouldn t have to tell you something that you have to already know unless you bought your ham license from a crooked VE! No indoor antenna is ever going to work as well as the same antenna mounted outdoors! This is due to the antenna being inside the office, house, camper, garage, apartment, condo, grass shack, igloo or cave. After all, we don't know you or how you live, so we can't speculate! Inside you are usually surrounded by gutters, heating ducts and electrical wire, central air and are usually sitting on top of a furnace that has hundreds of feet or metal ductwork running in all directions below (and/or above) you. BUT, indoor antennas do have the advantage of being out of sight of your neighbors, wife and children and they are very easy to adjust or change when the weather or height would not allow you to do so if it were outside. Indoor suggestions; A simple eye hook or one of the cup hanger hooks mounted under the shelves in your old kitchen cabinets can be screwed into the top corner of the wood molding around a window or door and the antenna strung between these hooks. If you have a corner window, it's really easy top use it as the mounting place for the center insulator. You can then run one side of the dipole to the corner to the left and the other to the corner to the right of that window, or to a closet door, or to a plant hanging hook screwed into the ceiling at any point that fits your situation. You can also run the legs of the dipole down to the floor of each corner and place a hook there with a string or weed eater line as a stand off insulator. One of the best places to put any antenna indoors is in your attic. There are usually no walls at all up there and you can run your antennas all over the place with nothing to get in your way or the incoming radio signal's way. See the photos on slinkyantennas.com. Another way to mount your antenna indoors is to run the coax up a corner and bring one leg of the dipole back down the same corner and the other leg to a top corner. That's less noticeable than the inverted vee.
