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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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