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End Fed Antenna
The antenna behaves like the common dipole but fed at one end. I have installed just about all the antennas, You name it I have had it up. Now please do not get me wrong, The resent end fed will not be as good as a tribander. It will be an antenna for a small yard, an antenna that you will not need an antenna switch, It will work fairly good low to the grown and very easy to install. Most internal tuners will tune it. I have one for 40 20 and 10 meters. After trimming the 40 meter band it has a 2:1 SWR but the 20 and 10 are almost flat and 40 will work fine with the radio's tuner. If you have an external tuner you will be able to work it on all bands 40 up to 10. 40 meters is very good at about 300 miles. I have worked lots of DX stations also, like VK, ZL, YB and tons of Europe. You can build or buy one that will even take 1.5 kilowatt. Mine is a 300 watter and I can run 100 watts on SSB or 50 watts on FT8. All day long. Now everything affects everything when it comes to antennas so try a few ways to hang it, inverted L, vertical, or flat top. Mine tunes best as an inverted Vee at 20 foot. As always higher is better. Just sling it in a tree when operating portable. You can get one for 80 / 10 also.
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Buy one:
https://myantennas.com/wp/product-category/antennas/efhw-multi-band/
Build it yourself :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxhT9uObigs
Read a review by QST:
https://myantennas.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/PROD-REV-MyAnt.pdf