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Hello,

I have sourced a 2nd hand Innovanntennas 8el LFA. I think its an old one, I have disassembled and cleaned it up and its just about ready to go up, its looking nearly new now.

Can anyone tell me if I need a choke balun on it at the feed point?

Additionally, does anyone know what this "arm" does that connects the driven LFA element to the boom?

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Thu Dec 07, 2017 12:17 am
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The bar is a 1/4 wave matching stub, Pawsey stub it's called,

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Thanks, I assume that this will mean that not (ugly) balun or choke is required?


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Personally never needed a choke balun at these frequencies/antenna types.

If the cats hair stands on end when you key up, fit one

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Haha thank you.


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From Justin's website.

Pawsey Stub

19/11/2010 Many Hams have seen inconsistencies with the Pawsey stub, largely believed to be due to the varied velocity factor seen in most coax cables. Steve, G3TXQ contacted me with a very interesting viewpoint and provided some seemingly valid information explaining why only coax of the same type should be used for the Pawsey stub, not a separate, dissimilar wire. I therefore would no longer recommend this style of Pawsey stub but will keep the information here. My antenna balun with a feedpoint choke may give the best, all round performance: http://www.hamradio.me/antennas/coax-ve ... #more-1528

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I did see that earlier today, thank you.

I could remove it altogether and use a coax choke - will leave enough coax to allow.


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Thanks for everyone help on this.

For those that might be interested. I disassembled the antenna completely, cleaned it up thoroughly, made up a new N-type tail, reassassembled and installed on the mast in place of a 9el Tonna. It came up well and performs very well also. Pardon the state of my garage/workshop, it needs a good tidy up but I am too busy doing other more interesting things!

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Well done on getting it sorted and up in the air, hope you catch some good openings in the new year :good:

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Many thanks, yes that would be good.

I am also in the process of building my own 8el LFA as this is something I have been meaning to do for a while (but this second hand one came up first).


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Excellent. Use the bits to make a 70cm LFA then?

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just to add to this thread. i recently altered my old 9el LFA, removed the pawsey stub and added an aluminium stauff clamp onto the boom opposite the feed point. i have tried a couple of different balun methods, one being a 1/4 wave pawsey stub on the coaxial input. this did not work as intended and i could not find a suitable dip in swr and impedance near to 50 ohm. i have found that I0QM's 1/4 wave with 3/4 wave coaxial did help things dramatically when it came to a resonant point.

now im not sure if i over engineered things and have debated if a few turns of coax into a choke would have the same effect if not better. also i have considered clamping ferrites over the coax which is a method justin now appears to use.

i can confirm that the aluminium stauff did seem to do its DC grounding job and noise levels have improved.

does anyone have any thoughts to add to this?

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