Stu!!!
Thanks for the heads-up as far as the "Vee-Beam" is
concerned but remember also that NOT ALL OF US ARE
BLESSED with a location as nice as yours!!! I've been
going around with our local utility company for years
and I'm DAMN-lucky to have 218 DXCC entities
confirmed!!!
Regards,
Jim/nn6ee
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--- Stuart Rohre <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Jim,
> I regularly used 5 watts SSB to win our section and
> place 4th in class at
> Field Day on a Vee beam at our club station in mid
> 90's.
>
> Respectfully, 100 watts is plenty with a Vee beam,
> to control the band.
>
> The 100 watt rating comes about because of the need
> to dissipate some power
> in the termination resistors for the back wave
> direction. If you do not
> want a power restriction, then just omit the
> resistors, and substitute a
> quarter wave stub for the band in use to preserve
> unidirectional response.
>
> IF you omit the resistors, and leave the legs open,
> you will have bi
> directional response, ie equal gain forward and
> back.
>
> For central US, this is desirable in a contest; for
> you do not have to wait
> to rotate a beam. However, it makes you obnoxiously
> loud using a kw in the
> direction you are not working.
>
> -Stuart
> K5KVH
>
>
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