Hi Marinus
I actually had one of those up for a while. I had a ~70 foot wire from
grounded to the top of the tower at about 50 feet, and 2 54' wires at about
the 20 foot level, fed with coax with the shield grounded at that point.
It was really broadbanded and I could cover just about the whole 80 meter
band with it. According to the writeup, it was supposed to have some
vertical component.
I found although it was really broadband, it didn't work as well as my
dipole. I finally took it down. But as they say, YMMV. 73
Tom W7WHY
>
> In my quest for setting up an antenna on our small plot on the side of a
> hill I came across this interesting looking 80 meter antenna:
>
> http://www.thepouch.com/k7os.html
>
> I think the article was published in QST 4/86 page 23 - 25.
>
> Not having great skill in modelling (only a bit with MMANA which has its
> limitations with ground losses / proximity as I discovered to my horror) I
> wonder if any of the ex[erts have a view on this antenna and have perhaps
> modelled it.
>
> 73, Marinus, ZL2ML
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