I truly love this antenna. My response is: even the poorest band conditions bring great DX with this antenna! Italian Sonnet Posts Contents. We won First Place in the USIslands QSO party in August 2016 using this antenna. I rarely write reviews, but the EFHW-8010 deserves my five star rating and this review. This is the smaller version of our EFHW-8010-2K-Plus model, see the comparison image. I decided to purchase this antenna and, while I don’t have anything to compare it to, I am very, very happy. I heard lots of voice DX, but had enough Ham radio for the day and just don’t enjoy competing in goofy the pileups. I generally love wire antennas, but this EFHW-8010 is truly awesome. The rest of the bands handle 1 KW without a problem on SSB and CW. My lover, I need you, help me. The SWR on 40, 20, and 15 meters is flat across the entire band. I had been using a vertical but this antenna is great!!!!! Such sighs and movements make my senses flee. Getting excellent reports from Europe through the Middle East… was able to work VK long path w/100W. Even with the 40 & 80 mtr bands being bad this past week. Its working on all bands Baz GD0SFI, Bill N1RIK We shall create memories on which to treasure I’m running it as an inverted L with the feedpoint currently about 10 ft above the ground, and then the antenna bends at about 35 ft above the ground and runs the rest runs to another tree to the 40 ft approximate level. So far I’m very happy with the antenna First tested with my KX3, great results with excellent reports, running only 15 Watts. Had mine for a year now, I guess. You can erect it very quickly the only limit is your imagination. The price was right & very easy set up. Then spend their time regretting waste. As stated there is no need for matching. (verified owner) – February 24, 2017. (verified owner) – August 4, 2020, I used the EFHW 8010 antenna for NAQP CW contest this past weekend with very good results. Thanks a lot ! Blaine K5UOT The EFHW-8010 can easily handle the 600W power output of my amp. What is interesting is using the SWR measurement capability of the 7300 the SWR as seen at the input to the feedline, ie… output of the 7300,(bypassing the linear amp and external KAT500 tuner) the SWR measured as follows on the various amateur bands: SWR 80 meters: SWR minimum 1.3 @ 3.565 MHZ varied from 1.3 to 2.2 @ 3.765 MHZ I have the antenna in a lazy V shape. Currently, anything I can hear, I can work. But SWR aside, how it performs is the important point. WHOA! I am very impressed. Since my review a few days ago I’ve made contact with West Virginia and New Brunswick on 20 meters and Brazil on 40 Meters, from Ireland, 100 Watts. Mike KM4CSY. I don’t want to embarrass them and that’s the truth. A pair of socks, filled will sand and threw them over tree branches. Danny, owner of My Antennas, a former antenna designer at Cush-Craft, suggested an end-fed design, the EFHW-8010 for this configuration. I’ve had the wire up for a couple of months, but life got in the way until mid-October. My radio is an icom 756 pro 3 and with setup I don’t have to even use the built-in tuner to operate. The humpback beastie keeps changing form I wish I had known about this antenna earlier I would have bought this instead of using a small compromise antenna for HF. SWR is less than 2:1 across all bands, typically 1.5:1 or less, however it needs a bit of tuning help on 80 and 30 meters. Grounded (counterpoised?) the results are stunning, couldn’t be happier!……… the long one is noisier than the short one but depending on the direction of the calling station both work equally well………. Well yesterday I finally got it installed temporarily. (verified owner) – August 2, 2017. Yesterday it arrived. I just put up my EFHW-8010-1K on Thursday with a lot of help from a Ham Radio friend. It’s up about 35ft high and stretched 50ft from a pole to the 1st tree, then stretched 58ft to a 2nd tree and then stretched back just a bit over 25ft to the pole. And trembling as on the edge of sense, I quicken No words, no thoughts can reach me now, taunt This surpasses my expectations and I am very happy it! Hi Dany. I need antenna which will be low visible, and still able to get me contacts on state to state, or DX distance. I purchased the EFHW-8010 some time ago and am completely awed by the performance. This was done in less than a month. (verified owner) – September 19, 2016, Shipped and arrived quickly. I actually wish I had bought one sooner. I was skeptical. I have had contacts throughout the Americas and Asia. The antennas performs as well as if I had separate dipoles for all three bands but with a lot less hassle. OK, the conditions have to permit that sort of low power work, but this antenna now gives me lots of confidence that I CAN WORK QRP, and that does make me feel pretty happy. It seems the sweet spot for the SWR is a little higher than the FT8 area but still is quite good and I don’t use a tuner on 80, 40 or 20. K1FNX. I got an old Yaesu FT-77 and made contact with a Ham in the very north of Norway the first night I talked on the radio and he was very impressed because he said it’s rare he hears anyone this far down on 80 meters, I’m in Ireland. I’ve used the EFHW-8010 antenna for portable ops over the last couple years. Throw in a spool of lightweight Mastrant rope, find a ground rod locally, hire some kids to climb coconut trees, and you are in business. Materials, and was impressed how it performs is the rider and who the beast March review... Check in on couple of West Coast of the antenna was appealing on Tuesday i the... 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