- 1. Topband: Fire tower as support for 1/4-wave sloper (score: 1)
- Author: John Harper <john@ae5x.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:50:22 -0500
- Hello, I have obtained permission to operate from what I hope will be an ideal location (better than my home QTH) for the upcoming ARRL 160 Meter Contest - a fire tower-like tower, 90 feet tall way u
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-11/msg00138.html (7,590 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Fire tower as support for 1/4-wave sloper (score: 1)
- Author: Dennis OConnor <ad4hk2004@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:47:39 -0800 (PST)
- Forget the sloppy sloper... You have a nice support... What I suggest for a temporary antenna is a bent dipole, fed with coax... Use a 2x4 clamped to the tower to hold the upper end of the antenna 5
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-11/msg00141.html (7,535 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: Fire tower as support for 1/4-wave sloper (score: 1)
- Author: "George (K8GG) & Marijke Guerin" <gmguerin@voyager.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:13:12 -0500
- John & fellow Topbanders: John, I would consider a different approach as well. An inverted-L 160 feet long, about 80 - 85 feet vertical with the rest sloping out at less than 30 degrees below horizon
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-11/msg00143.html (9,027 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: Fire tower as support for 1/4-wave sloper (score: 1)
- Author: Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix@inet.net.nz>
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:08:42 +1300
- Hi John, Having used a sloper from ZL for 4 years, I changed over to a top drive arrangement. The latter gave me a 3 dB improvement over the sloper. You may want to try out top drive. If os, run the
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-11/msg00145.html (8,530 bytes)
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