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Great antenna
Posted by Al on 1st Aug 2018
I lost my 75ft tower and Steppir to a tornado. I needed something I could get up quickly. I had never tried open wire feed. This antenna is well made and worth the money. I added a 4:1 balun and got the antenna up 60ft in the air. I have used it on all bands 80-6, and it is a great performer. An open wire fed non-resonant antenna. No more unbalanced resonant antennas for me. In the month and a half it has been up, I have WAS on two bands, DXCC and WAC with this antenna. Plus, 16 DXCC On 6 meters. This antenna was a great surprise to me, and my first experience with open wire. The tuner in my ICOM amp matches all bands except 30m. I use an MFJ tuner for 30, and no problems.
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Outstanding antenna for a great price
Posted by Mat G on 17th Apr 2018
I was looking for an easy to put up, yet quality antenna and I found that in the True Ladder Line antenna. It was easy to put up and it gives very low SWR when installed correctly. I have had no issues with it, even through winter snow/ice/rain storms. I highly recommend this antenna for HF work!
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10-80 W7FG Very well made
Posted by Unknown on 23rd Jan 2018
I can only say good things about the W7FG.
I run strictly balanced tuners on 80. This antenna lends itself well for this. The antenna had held up well in a couple of heavy freezing rain days in Ontario Canada. It is well made and was simple to intall.
This design us absolutely the best for low band.
I will be buying another product from this company and I will recommend it to my friends
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Very worthwhile purchase!
Posted by Tom on 11th Jan 2018
I'd never used ladder line prior to receiving my True Ladder Line antenna & I have to say I am extremely pleased with the antenna's performance. I ended up going with the 4:1 balun & this antenna really radiates nicely. The other thing that has impressed me is on the receiving side how quiet it is. Compared to my 6 band yagi, this antenna usually receives nearly as well & sometimes even better & is usually more quiet.
Brian was extremely helpful through the whole process & always returned my emails.
Highly recommend!
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Best Antenna I've Had 58 Years
Posted by Schley Cox on 27th Jul 2017
My first Novice antenna was a 40 Meter dipole fed with home made ladder line. I graduated to 75 ohm twin lead and then discovered coax and didn't look back. Recently I experienced serious problems with RF in the shack from an EFHW antenna and went back to my roots. W7FG's ladder line antenna was pretty easy to get into the basement (I drilled another hole beside the one for my coax) and draped the feed under the joists over to my old Ten-Tec balanced/unbalanced tuner. 80-10 load up fine without any fancy settings on the tuner. No RF gremlins running around. Good signal reports 80-15 including WARCs. 30 Meters is was the hardest band to load (very sharp) but I receive good reports there too. I haven't operated on 10 yet but I have no reason to think FG's antenna won't shine there too since it will radiate most of my output signal instead of only 50 or 60%. I'm wondering if I can run it as a Marconi-T by feeding the ladder line from a single antenna post. It would take a good ground I know. But that will be a winter project. If you get one you will like it. 73 DE W4AMW
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An ideal wire antenna
Posted by Rick Shindley on 11th Nov 2016
I decided to buy the W7FG open wire feed line center fed dipole as it is an ideal 80-10 dipole if fed properly. I also bought a Palstar balanced tuner to use with this antenna.
The antenna is supported by a 40 ft Rohn mast and an oak tree with a pulley at 40 ft and a 15 lb weight. The two supports are 240 ft apart so the center of the dipole is at 30-35 ft. and close to the house. (The antenna wire has not stretched in the 3 months since install.)
I brought the feed line into the basement shack area through our 1 ft. thick block wall. I used threaded rod and 1 1/2" PVC pipes and end caps through the wall after drilling 2" dia. holes through an air cavity in a block. I maintained the 3 1/2" wire spacing by locating the holes diagonally form one another as the air cavity would otherwise not allow the spacing.
The antenna tunes everywhere on all bands from 80-6!!! The reflected power needle barely moves at 100 W out! It was easy to initially get below 1.2 : 1 at first try on 80-10 but 6m seemed impossible. I experimented over a period of days and found higher Q matches at other LC pairings. Now that reflected power needle stays very close to its rest position from 80 thru 6. The settings are stable and remains so whether the antenna and feed line are wet or dry. Amazing!
The feedline was 100ft from the factory but I cut it arbitrarily to about 55 ft (I did not measure) to make it hang neatly and out of the way as it hangs down to reach the PVC feed throughs in the wall in the basement egress window well.
This antenna/tuner combo exceeds expectations!
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It really does work!
Posted by John on 24th Aug 2016
Must admit, I was not too impressed when I opened the box and took a look at the contents. Boy was I surprised and amazed. Easy to install and boy does it work! 80-10 just as advertised. Also I really appreciated the various excellent dipole reference documents made available by True Ladder.
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Finally my best all band antenna
Posted by Bill Langford Sr on 3rd Aug 2016
After 60 years of ham radio I finally have my best antenna, the W7FG dipole. With my antenna tuner I can work all bands with excellent results and the price is less than if I had built it myself.
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80-6m OCF Dipole
Posted by Unknown on 8th Jul 2016
Unique construction and OWL spreaders
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Quality has not changed
Posted by Unknown on 15th Jun 2016
I had the ladder line a few years ago then switched to all coax. Now I am in MARS and need more flexibility so I got the open wire antenna again. The quality is the same as several years ago, excellent. If you like open wire and all band doublet type antenna I highly recommend this antenna. I ordered it with 100 feet of feedline, but did not need all so I trimmed it to 55 feet. Works FB with my T-Match tuner into a Balun Designs 4-1 balun. 73, Dale, K9VUJ
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