Author: Kirk Kleinschmidt via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 05:41:02 +0000 (UTC)
Hi, gang, I'm in a bit of a race against the clock (the winter clock), and I'm trying to get a vertical up in the back yard that might be useful on 160-40. (Never used a vertical before, but I wanna.
Tie the feed wires together and operate the existing antenna as a top loaded vertical. Forget about all the other ideas you mentioned. Rick N6RK _______________________________________________ ______
Hi Kirk To get the feel of a vertical, could you try shorting the feedline of the dipole together at the shack end and load it up as a top loaded vertical (with some radials of course)? Might be bett
Author: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 12:29:02 -0400
I have suspended a T antenna from two 50' foot towers and a 50'drop wire...adjust the T to give a good match on 1.8 against ground. (A few radials will do. Them with two additional drop wires on insu
I second Rick's suggestion. I have an 80M dipole up about 80 feet fed with open wire line. On 160M I short the feedline together in the shack, and with an antenna tuner use it as a top-loaded vertica
Author: Kirk Kleinschmidt via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 19:05:25 +0000 (UTC)
Regarding the top-loaded doublet idea: I planned to do this, and I have the relays and the goodies on hand to implement it. My potential problem is, the 35-foot support tower is bracketed to the side
You have RF in the shack because you have no radials or counterpoise! AND the antenna will work a LOT better with a counterpoise. Anything from radials to a K2AV folded counterpoise to something impr