Thank you to all who have given me advice about purchasing an Ameritron AL-1500. You truly are amazing, with all the cumulative body of knowledge out there. Interesting was the return comments I got
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All antennas are compromises. It just depends on how much space you have and your budget. They Hy-Tower is a good compromise, but you might want to try some simple dipoles on some of the bands as wel
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: REPLY: When you're running high power, that will be true regardless of your antenna. Low power stations will hear you, you won't hear them. With a higher gain antenna, the HP vs LP
I can only guess based on experience of talking to many stations around the world, but perhaps 15-20% of hams in the US run 800 watts (or more) for output. Then there is the QRP crowd, which might be
The 1500W will be 100W or less when compared to those using gain antennas, especially on 40M and up where a yagi has substantial apparent gain from elevation pattern compression and ground gain. An e
I would suggest you look towards one of the B& W antennas. It is of their own proprietary design, used by a lot of private individuals along with the military and government . Works well from 160 thr