you are in country which can really take advantage of a low 40 - I tried
to get one up for SS but something was screwy with the feedline and
could not figure it out in time...
K3LR had a great NCJ article on this years back - he used a wire dipole
up about 40 ft and a reflector underneath it at 4 ft to ensure cloud
warming tendancies....in the Northeast there are so many population
centers SO close together that a low 40 is a mandate!
I tried to offset my high forty by trying to find some fill with a
vertical and drove both simultaneously...would rather have had something
to get me more Georgia, etc on 40...but....skip was so short on 20 I
suspect that I got away without help on 40.
73,
Jim, K4OJ
Pete Smith wrote:
> At the last minute before SS, I put up a low dipole for 40m at about
> 30 feet. It worked great Sunday morning while the sun was up, but for
> most of the rest of the time my 2-el yagi at 104 feet seemed as good
> or better, even on stations relatively close in. It may be that the
> dipole was too close to my grounded guy wires.
>
> For next year I'm thinking of low dipoles for 40 and 80, a lot further
> away from the guys. Ideally I'd run them off the same feedline, and
> fan the ends of the 40m dipole a foot or so below the 80m one. Any
> thoughts on how that will work, and whether I'd be better off making
> them separate antennas to optimize the height? If so, what height is
> recommended for 40 and 80? Is there a good compromise?
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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