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Legendary DX Commander introduces the new 7m telescopic pole. This is the small version of its big brother, the 10m DX Commander and delivers you just under 7m in height.
If you need a heavier pole, take a look at the 10m version.
Spec:
- Length: 6.8m
- Max diameter of pole inc screw-over end cap 45mm
- Max diameter of lower tube: 36mm
- Lower diameter of second tube: 32mm
- Wall thickness: 1.3mm
- Length colapsed 116cm
The last section is solid fibreglass so that super-lightweight dipoles and doubles may be flown from the very top, albeit with some “curve”. This pole is not suitable for hard-drawn copper wire dipoles and doublets (for instance standard G5RVs) because that type wire is too heavy.
I have tested this with a 40m inverted V dipole using 1.2mm equipment hook-up wire with a spec of 7 x 0.2mm strands. I soldered the coax directly to the wire to cut any weight down at the feedpoint and used Aircell 5 coax (very light but similar spec to RG213) to good effect. But this pole will not accept a heavy head-load.
Verticals (Assumes insulated sheathed wire [velocity factor plays a part in the dimensions]:)
- 40m vertical. Go all the way up the pole with your wire, through the little loop at the top and back down again. Cut the length to tune for perfect match. Total length will be around 12m long. Next time I build this, I’ll give you the exact dimensions
- 30m Vertical. Cut your element length to 6.8m and fold back the end 6cms to form a loop. You’ll have a 10 MHz pure quarter-wave vertical and your ATU will easily tune 12m and 10m as a bonus.
- 20m. Leave off the two top sections. Cut your wire to 4.95m. Fold back 6cms. You will have a top-performing 20m mono-bander that will probably out-perform most of your other wire antennas on TX.
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