I live in an area where I can not put much up and I don't always want to run to the contest station. I put a tribander on a roof tripod and a ground mounted Hustler 5 BTV for 40 and 80 but I want mor
Getting a signal OUT is many times not the issue...you run your kilowatt or more (some guys do) and you should be heard for all practical purposes. Just make sure what you have got is working efficie
Probably the best and easiest idea would be to remote the contest station. John J. Nistico 911 Electric Inc. 516.325-8993 _______________________________________________ _____________________________
Can you put that vertical on your roof? See my NEC study on that topic, on my website. Also, look at our design of a portable 80M FD vertical and see you might be able to do something like that. I'd
John, You didn't mention what you wanted to do. DX, domestic comms, etc. My 2nd tribander is on a garage mounted tripod @ 20-25 ft, it works FB but is used mostly as the 2nd radio antenna as it usual
Horizontal Loop for 80-Meter DX, aug 2002 QST I used a relay to switch phasing on the feed line. Spencer W1GAK _______________________________________________ ________________________________________
A low horizontal antenna is both inefficient (because it is low) and a poor DX antenna (because what little radiation it produces is at high angles. John says he has no height. To make that a good DX
Author: Andre VanWyk via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 17:18:53 -0600
He did say he has NO height. So, a loop will be better than nothing if he cannot put up anything tall. NJ0F Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ _______________________
John J. Nistico Replace the ground mounted vertical with a SteppIR BigIR mounted on the roof with tuned radials for each band. Replace the tribander with a compact SteppIR Yagi. Depending on the heig
Some in that circumstance have found that putting up some kind of directional parasitic array, and if nothing else, using it as a receive antenna along side the xmit antenna can provide ROI for dx no