Has anyone modeled a single element K8UR sloper?
The K8UR sloper is essentially an inverted-V on it's side,
with the feedpoint pulled out away from the tower. It is
normally described as used in a 4-element switchable
sloper array, as in the ARRL Antenna Compendium,
Volume 4 in the article "The 160-Meter Sloper System
at K3LR".
The advantage of these elements is touted as reduced
high-angle radiation and reduced horizontal component.
All the published patterns that I've seen are for the 4-element
array, but I'm interested to see whether the same benefits
are there for the single K8UR sloper.
The applications is on 80m, with the goal being getting a little
more oooomph from Curacao to the USA, and I cannot use
multiple elements in the space and circumstance we have
to work with on our 100-foot tower.
Does anyone have the model to share?
73,
Jeff Maass K8ND
Caribbean Contesting Consortium - PJ2T
http://www.pj2t.org
http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass/Radio/PJ2T_Aerial.htm
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