Hi, I have had a BW for twenty years. It's the 66feet version. It exceeded my expectations, you can use qrp levels at 1w as well or less with wjst sort of modes. Don't think these kind of antenna are for portable operation. First they are rather eavy. You should roll them very well. I just installed once and is surely easier to install compared to a av640. But for portable operation I would opt for a tuner and a wire, you betcha! Alternatively an endfed Zepp. BW are now extremely expensive, yes they are a durable good, but you can make a low power version that works similarly at a fraction of the cost and much more light and portable. So if you want one portable, just make it.
Il 11/mag/2018 16:48, "Kees T" <
windy10605@...> ha scritto:
Broadband HF Folded Dipole Antennas at QRP power levels.......any experience with them out there ? The advantage of these is "no tuner required". I recall B&W selling these in the 60's and the military likes them because they don't require tuning and are good from 2-30MHz with a maximum SWR of about 2:1 and since they are wire antennas, you can roll them up and carry them easily.
73 Kees K5BCQ
