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Center Loaded Off Center Fed Dipole 6 band


CL-OCFD with 80, 40, 30, 20, 15 & 10 m multiband Center-Loaded Off-Center-Fed Dipol
post 13 Jun 2024
Center Loaded Off Center Fed Dipole 6 band

OCF dipole antenna Links

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Windom antenna
The Windom antenna is OCF off center fed

Off Center Feed Dipole or FD-4 on 160m
I took a pvc-tube with 50mm diameter and bring up 125 windings of 0,75mm² hvk standard isolated cable

Windom off center fed
Later generation of the Windom are more correctly called off-center-fed dipoles or in abbreviated form, OCF dipole antennas


Antenna switch arduino for icom IC-7300

Antenna switch arduino for icom IC-7300 A solution built around an arduino nano and one of the readily available four relay switching boards

50 MHz preamp Gain 26dB with the BFG135

50 MHz preamp Gain 26dB with the BFG135 Preamps for 144 and 430 MHz, for 50 MHz, the BFG135a is a cheap transistor and in my view rather strong. It is not easily damaged by static discharge or RF power. FG connection

30 Volt Computer Power Supply Stack

30 Volt Computer Power Supply Stack A bonus was that i discovered that these did not need a standby load connected to the supply to keep them running just apply mains power and close the Start lead to ground