A refreshing change…
I have recently been considering a number of antenna options for portable operating - something I seem to spend a lot of time doing since getting the ‘portable’ bug earlier this year.
From an article titled ‘My Top Five Backyard Multi-Band Wire HF Antennas’ by L. B. Cebik (W4RNL) I have selected the ‘broadside doublet’ as my next little project. Being a balanced antenna and requiring a balanced feed line I have also been exploring suitable antenna matching units and have decided that an old Z-match design should work well.
With that in mind I found an ad for an old SEM Transmatch unit and called the seller to do a deal. To my surprise he told me he’d send me the unit immediately and suggested I ‘pop a cheque in the post when it arrives’. Not at all what I was expecting from a commercial dealer and to be honest, a refreshing change from kind of sellers often found on eBay where nothing happens until your money is firmly in their hands (so to speak).
I am now looking forward to receiving the tuner and experimenting with a 44ft long doublet fed with 300 ohm ladder line. All I need now is a bit of decent weather…or is that too much to ask?