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141. Re: Topband: Tower-attached guy wires - max length for driven tower? (score: 2)
Author: "Herbert Schoenbohm" <herbs@surfvi.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:33:23 -0400
decide Since Brian, The local power company may be able to sell you or give you some nice super strong fiberglass HV insulators which are required at every guy connection to the tower. I use them als
/archives//html/Topband/2009-03/msg00090.html (9,781 bytes)

142. Re: Topband: shunt fed towers (score: 2)
Author: Tree <tree@kkn.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:33:23 -0800
I'll assume this is sarcasm. Okay - I have now heard of at least two cases where tall towers work well on 160 meters. I "eat my words". However, there sure isn't anything wrong with a 70-80 foot towe
/archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00101.html (8,395 bytes)

143. Topband: Interaction on shunt fed tower with 1/2 sloper? (score: 2)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:44:14 -0300
OK, don't want to belabour this subject, overstay my welcome, nor bore the list with my ongoing issues to hopefully shunt feed my 48' tower on 160m, as you all have been so kind, but I do have 1 more
/archives//html/Topband/2008-10/msg00016.html (8,887 bytes)

144. Topband: How electrically tall is this tower please? (will it work on 160?) (long read) (score: 2)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:05:00 -0300
Hello Top Band Antenna Gurus: Need a little help please. I recently got back on 160m in a small way. (rec'd my "DXING ON THE EDGE" book <tnx Jeff> the other day and am all fired up to put out more th
/archives//html/Topband/2008-09/msg00064.html (10,156 bytes)

145. Re: Topband: gamma match a tower (score: 2)
Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:53:02 -0500
I second this motion. My 31-meter tower has a 40m yagi on top and two tribanders at 31 and 21 meters, but the real kicker is that I have a 4 x 80m lazy-vee dipole array, fed through coax that foes up
/archives//html/Topband/2007-11/msg00236.html (9,475 bytes)

146. Re: Topband: gamma match a tower (score: 2)
Author: "Ryszard Tymkiewicz" <rtym@ippt.gov.pl>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:51:18 +0100
Jim I had similar doubts before I decided to my tower as a shunt feed. I have only one tower and all antennas for 10 bands are on it. I have X7 with 2 elements for 30m above it 7 elements for 50 MHz
/archives//html/Topband/2007-11/msg00233.html (8,562 bytes)

147. Topband: Recent 160m Antenna Questions (score: 2)
Author: Dave Court <EI3IO@connogue.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:26:37 +0000
Dear All I also use a 'low' tower to support an inverted L. This is 60 ft with a 15 ft stub mast on which there is a tribander and VHF beams. Recently mentioned on this list were slopers, inverted Ls
/archives//html/Topband/2007-11/msg00206.html (9,426 bytes)

148. Topband: How to use this tower? (score: 2)
Author: Pascal Grandjean - F5LEN <grandjean.pascal@laposte.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:11:48 +0200
Hi all, I will be able to put some 160m antennas on a massive and high self-standing triangular tower. This tower supported 9x3m dishs for military purposes. It's located on a small hill. The take of
/archives//html/Topband/2007-09/msg00162.html (7,566 bytes)

149. Re: Topband: sloping 1/2 wave dipole (score: 2)
Author: Doug Renwick <ve5ra@sasktel.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:13:53 -0600
wanted to ask the antenna guru"swhat they think abouy a sloping dipole to get a little directional gain in a desired direction as apposed to a 1/4 wave verticle ,it would be suspended from a 135 ft.t
/archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00173.html (7,227 bytes)

150. Re: Topband: FW: Topband antenna advice (score: 2)
Author: Ralph Matheny <mathenyr@marietta.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:15:18 -0400 (EDT)
You'll find a apir or so of Inverted L antennas with a good ground system pretty hard to beat as a start. The ground you put in, if you plan ahead a bit, will last for future antennas. Get as much ve
/archives//html/Topband/2006-05/msg00008.html (9,525 bytes)

151. Topband: FW: Topband antenna advice (score: 2)
Author: "Duncan Lindsay -MSC Valencia-" <duncan@mscvalencia.com>(by way of BillTippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 06:34:33 -0400
Dear All First of let me state that in spite of being licensed for 18 years, I can count the contacts I have made on top band on the fingers of one hand. This is a result of a) living in an urban are
/archives//html/Topband/2006-05/msg00007.html (8,107 bytes)

152. Re: Topband: VA7LF Trans Pacific Testing (score: 2)
Author: "Steve McDonald" <jsm@gulfislands.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 17:58:46 -0700
Thanks for the QSO George! We worked a half dozen stations crossband 160 / 2200m last night during the 1 hour set aside for this activity. The majority were in Oregon. The next time we set up for th
/archives//html/Topband/2006-04/msg00018.html (8,931 bytes)

153. Re: Topband: VA7LF Trans Pacific Testing (score: 2)
Author: "George Cutsogeorge" <w2vjn@rosenet.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 06:22:34 -0700
Last night at 03:09 VA7LF was 559 copy on 137.7 kHz here in south west Oregon. I was listening with an FT1000 and my 160 meter slopers. Hopefully, they will post the results of their testing. George,
/archives//html/Topband/2006-04/msg00017.html (6,568 bytes)

154. Re: Topband: 160 FROM GUANTANAMO BAY CUBA (score: 2)
Author: herbs@surfvi.com
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:23:30 -0400
Quoting N4BAA - Jose Castillo <n4baa@cox.net>: Jose, A good ground is not what you required nor necessary to make a Beverage play. One trick you might try in the future is to *not* ground the Beverag
/archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00048.html (10,738 bytes)

155. Re: Topband: 160 FROM GUANTANAMO BAY CUBA (score: 2)
Author: K3BU@aol.com
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:18:38 EST
Setup was same as I have here in VA...which does well....came home with same materail on Tuesday....reinstalled them on Wednesday... Everything fine!....<< You should have brought some VA soil :-) Lo
/archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00046.html (7,494 bytes)

156. Re: Topband: "Magnetic Receiving Loop / small loop , brief summary. (score: 2)
Author: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:54:44 -0500
I want to hear more activity on the low bands. Amateur HF activity is declining. Why? What can we do to stimulate activity? I don't think concentrating a major part of a book on Techniques on antenn
/archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00295.html (10,980 bytes)

157. Topband: 160m OPEN to NEVADA THE BAND IS ALIVE ! (score: 2)
Author: "Josh" <xppq@ispwest.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:34:48 -0700
Greetings Top Band Zealots October 23 0300 to 0600 utc many Europeans coming thru to WEST USA - got 579s from SM5EDX ( beacon of SM) PA0CLN, SM4CAN, OH3XR, OH2BO - etc - heard a bunch of EU that did
/archives//html/Topband/2005-10/msg00217.html (6,967 bytes)

158. Re: Topband: Sloper Antenna (score: 2)
Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:01:15 -0700
Hi Bill, I built the antenna described in the March 1998 QST called "A Reduced-Size Half Sloper For 160 Meters" (and reproduced in the "ARRL's Wire Antenna Classics" publication, chapter 7). Mine is
/archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00183.html (8,683 bytes)

159. Topband: Sloper Antenna (score: 2)
Author: "wa4fki" <wa4fki@nc.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:19:08 -0500
Hello Everyone, I thought I found a good antenna that would work in a small city lot. The "Sloper" seemed to be the answer. Three were built with no success. I followed to the letter slopers that wer
/archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00181.html (7,060 bytes)

160. Topband: Remote Controled QTH (score: 2)
Author: "Jarda Semotan" <ok1rd@sxg.cz>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:06:33 +0100
Hello, first of all thanks to Tom NI1N and Joe K4IK for information which SteppIR antennas used as capacity hat of shunt fed towers are concerned. I jumped into the discussion but because of being a
/archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00151.html (10,690 bytes)


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