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How To Build a Screwdriver Antenna: by W6AAQ Don Johnson
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N8VULWilliam (Wild Bill) Lewis41,24,51 N 81.36.37 W Garfield Heights (Suburb of Cleveland)Cuyahoga County OhioLocator EN91ejI have been a licensed Amateur radio operator since 1992. I hold the Extra Class License. I do a lot of 20 meter mobile on the job and mostly 2 Meter and HF from home. I am a member of the L.E.A.R.A. The ARRL, and am a ARRL VE . My main antenna has always been a wire dipole for HF but acquired a 5btv Cushcraft around 1996. A FT-1500 mobile in my pickup with a Radio Shack mag mount antenna. I also have a Yaesu FT-857D in my road tractor. I am experimenting with different antennas at the moment and have found the Arrow design UHF/VHF antenna superb on bandwidth and low SWR across the whole band. I am also using a DK3 Screwdriver Antenna for HF. What a great antenna it is. The hamsticks I was using were good, (but very narrow banded), but the the Screwdriver antenna is the cats MEOW.... It tunes from 3.5 mhz to 30 mhz in less than a minute. Usually if I hear them I can work them with pretty darn good reports.
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