<< I would like to install a 4-Square system but have a question . I I have an 80 Meter 4-square installed in a field of 50-80 foot fir trees and it plays well. I have installed a 40 meter 4 square i
To: <towertalk@contesting.com> I got "roped into" measuring the resonant frequency of tree by some guy who thinks they make great antennas because they are shaped like (gag) fractals.. In order for a
K1VR: Dana Atchley, then W1HKK and later W1CF, who held the patent on the four square (along with W1FC, formerly W1FRR), believed that the key was not vertical vs. horizontal at 40 m, but rather the
Hi Tom I am using 3 verticals on 40 meters and in my opinion, they are killer antennas. There are some others here in town that use dipoles and they blow them away. In the DX contests, I can usually
Yes, verticals work. But everything is relative. I have had verticals and bob tail curtains on this property; at the same time 4 element wire quad at 100' aimed on EU and 4 el KLM at 175'. The vertic
To: <towertalk@contesting.com> Four squares traditionally use less than optimum gain phasing systems. The excellent phasing system described by Roy Lewallen (no splitter) uses 90 degree / 180 degree
Author: Dick Green" <dick.green@valley.net (Dick Green)
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 09:13:52 -0400
raised much above 80 meters. Anyone else have any thoughts on that?? I think there's some truth to this, but I don't know why. I do know that I've never gotten a ground-mounted vertical to play on 1
Well I'm a 4-square owner and I am going to disagree with you to a point. This winter I did some comparisons with N4RJ on 80M CW. Val is running a inverted-V extended length dipole with the ends pul
Not surprising -- I ran a quick comparison between some models I have here. The 4-square has a maximum gain in its favored direction of 5.29 dBi at 26 degrees elevation. A dipole at roughly .6 wl abo
After reading this, am certainly happy that all seven ofmy Gladiator verticals have nice views of the Pacific to the East, South, and West! Unfortunately, the entire island of Kauai lies to my North,
If your verticals were 40 db down, you had something BAD wrong. According to ON4UN's Low Band DX'ing, 2 phased verticals can give from 3 to 4 db gain. What was the KLM, 6 or 7 db. Where is the 40 DB?