Palomar Eng BULLET 41 Foot End Fed Long Wire Antenna Review By Owner

This random wire ham radio antenna is great when an inexpensive, easy to use, unobtrusive antenna is required. Great for HOA and other places where a big antenna can't be used.

[@jamesgenn6469]

I recently added this End-fed OCF antenna to my shack as an alternative to my 49:1 End-fed sloper. I have found it to work very well after trimming/tuning the open wire part of the antenna to get the best SWR on all bands it is designed for. I first tried to tune the choke portion of the antenna but this didn't really help - I returned it to the recommended 12' location on the coax. Mine is hanging at about 30' as an "L" shape with very good results. I do use an external autotuner which is needed on the WARC bands as they are a bit over 3-1 SWR and outside of the IC-7300 tuning range. Out of the box the sweet spot of the antenna was toward the lower end of all the bands so I ended up folding back and wrapping about 2' of wire to bring it to the middle of all bands. After using and comparing this antenna with my End-fed I would highly recommend this as a first antenna for HF. Jim KC3RFG 73

[@bloeski]

I have not tried tuning the antenna length. I may try this sometime in the future.....Thanks for watching.

[@dylanschulz2404]

I have had mine for about 4 years. It has been 155' lazy L, 160' sloper fed at the top and grounded to a 35' tower, and finally is a kind of slanting/sloping lazy L that is about 218' of wire. It acts like a long wire antenna on the high bands and works DX fairly well on SSB. Not a bad antenna system for multiband use. 73

[@Tyler.i.81]

I've not seen a video from you for ages.

[@bloeski]

Unfortunately I have been wrapped up in other things for a while. I expect to do more videos regularly.

[@tomdonahoe3539]

Thank you for sharing your experience 😊. 73s

[@fm71450]

Thank you for this review. I was waiting to try the P.E. Off-Center fed dipole - after this review, I am going to “pull the trigger” on that purchase. Can’t wait to try it. KQ4IXD

[@bloeski]

Great to hear my video helped you. I have had great coverage using this antenna.....Thanks for watching.