20m dipole upgrade

I haven’t posted much in the last month or so, but I have been working on a few projects.

One of them involves the 20 meter band and my quick attic antenna wasn’t cutting it, so I put together a new one made from speaker wire.

I wound a proper balun on an FT240-43 and connected one end to the coax running down through the wall.

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I used some electric fence insulators for the ends and I strung it up in the attic.

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  So far, it is working well.