Daniel, Back in the early 1990s I used an AEA Isoloop as my 10 to 30 M antenna. Most of the time I used it horizontal at 45 ft, but it worked mounted vertical on a clothes line post. The HI Q loop is
Dan, Read your email and article on your club page with interest since I am going to install a US Tower TX-455 with a 3el Yagi Steppir on a 15 ft mast; this means the mast will stick up more than 10
Larry, I would like to learn more about "hinged mast plate". Did you design and make it yourself? I have never seen one. 73, Jim w3cp _______________________________________________ _________________
Using skywave propagation the optimum frequency for transmission from point A to point B can vary 5 to 1 considering time of day, season, and solar activity year. The rotatable LPA solves a lot of a
Ken, Although my 3el Steppir came with the 30/40 trombone looking driven element, and was assembled on the ground I'll give my opinion about installing it on the tower. Don't do it!! Drilling those h
Will, Those towers are inevitably going to be a parasitic part of your 160m antenna system. If you have a modeling capability you could look at it, or if like me you could just hang an inverted L up
A new 3el Steppir was installed and it performed properly for several days. But then during a QSO the VSWR abruptly went very high. A DC Ohm meter measurement of the coax line going to the Steppir in
My approach to using trees is to get a line over a fork in a tree branch that is high (use slingshot, bow and arrow, or baseball and fish line), secure line to dipole end, pull other end down around
When getting on for the SS SSB today, I found the antenna would rotate from north to exactly NE or NW and no further. The rotator is a Yaesu G-450A that was first installed October 2007 in a crankup
Bob, That antenna is a phased array. The elements are Ayzenburg wide impedance bandwidth dipoles. From those pictures I can't count how many elements high, it looks like seven or eight, and it probab
Bob, I must have misunderstood your question. The elements are cage constructed dipoles, fed in the center and with an unusual support/mount structure. I believe the conducting support acts like a fo