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21. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 17:31:25 -0700; It may be terrible, but it's better than no antenna at all. I have 72 DXCC entities worked using an inverted-V, 45' high at the center with ends barely off the ground. Some of these with a barefoot; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-09/msg00318.html (9,144 bytes)
22. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: "Kurt Cathcart, KR2C" <Kurt@KuhlRoad.net>; Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:34:46 -0400; Imaginary modes by text messaging? Boy aren't you full of stuff tonight? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ ______; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-09/msg00319.html (9,649 bytes)
23. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>; Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:01:46 -0700; Exactly right! But most serious operators have had the experience of a few dB making the difference between making a QSO or not. I have 72 DXCC entities worked using an inverted-V, 45' high at the ce; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-09/msg00320.html (9,698 bytes)
24. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Kelly Taylor <ve4xt@mymts.net>; Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 23:05:33 -0300; I think both Jims and Wess comments are well-taken. I also think this thought applies, particularly if you dont have redwoods in your back yard: never let perfection be the enemy of the OK. It does p; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-09/msg00321.html (10,083 bytes)
25. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:12:15 -0700; Not at all. FT8 decodes signals that aren't there and JT65 uses lookup tables to glean calls. So I call them imaginary modes. On my last FT8 QSO, and I do mean last, the DX station sent me a text m; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-09/msg00322.html (9,914 bytes)
26. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: "Kurt Cathcart, KR2C" <Kurt@KuhlRoad.net>; Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 22:33:21 -0400; Oh hell. Are you done now? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Towe; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-09/msg00323.html (10,327 bytes)
27. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: <john@kk9a.com>; Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 09:15:46 -0400; I am surprised that people still do not realize that working DXCC countries is no indication of antenna performance. The poor desert ground may be helping your inverted V however why would an inverte; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-10/msg00003.html (7,499 bytes)
28. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>; Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 10:10:28 -0700; That can be the result of resources, real estate (or lack thereof), or interest. Some folks take radio far more seriously than others, some of us have more resources and real estate than others. In t; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-10/msg00007.html (8,980 bytes)
29. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 17:26:31 -0700; It's a hobby . We get to choose our own metrics. I do find it interesting that my metric of DXCC countries worked is bogus in your mind while equally subjective experiences of yours are more valuable; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-10/msg00010.html (8,010 bytes)
30. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>; Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 20:15:37 -0700; It's a hobby . We get to choose our own metrics. We can certainly decide what's important to us, but Mother Nature will decide how things work. Did you compare your antennas on a calibrated range op; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-10/msg00016.html (9,549 bytes)
31. [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>; Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 20:40:29 -0700; <It's a hobby . We get to choose our own metrics. <I do find it interesting that my metric of DXCC countries worked is bogus in your mind while equally subjective experiences of yours are more valuab; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-10/msg00017.html (9,118 bytes)
32. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: <marsh@ka5m.net>; Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 06:33:14 -0500; One measure of a transmit antenna's performance is how loud the signal from it is at some distance away. In addition to the RBN, a WSPRlite Classic Antenna Performance Analysis System from SOTABEAMS; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-10/msg00019.html (9,582 bytes)
33. [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Jeff Widen via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:12:55 +0000 (UTC); I want to add a 20 meter wire to my 30 meter dipole and am looking for suggestions for spreaders to separate the elements. Half inch PVC pipe seems to bulky and heavy, any suggestions for something; /archives//html/Towertalk/2020-02/msg00086.html (7,596 bytes)
34. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <lists@subich.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:30:51 -0500; I used thin wall 1/2" PVC (SDR 13.5 - about 60% of wall thickness and weight of standard schedule 40) for my 160/80/40 parallel dipole. Alternatively, consider fiberglass plant stakes (ca. 1/4" or 3/; /archives//html/Towertalk/2020-02/msg00087.html (8,264 bytes)
35. [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Dave Sublette <k4to.dave@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:41:19 -0500; I added a #14 THHN wire spaced 12" above my 40 meter rotary dipole. I cut it to about 46 feet +/-. I modeled it on a program called Antenna Model. With NO connection to the existing 40 meter dipole o; /archives//html/Towertalk/2020-02/msg00088.html (7,609 bytes)
36. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:41:36 -0800; On 2/17/2020 11:12 AM, Jeff Widen via TowerTalk wrote: I want to add a 20 meter wire to my 30 meter dipole and am looking for suggestions for spreaders to separate the elements. Half inch PVC pipe s; /archives//html/Towertalk/2020-02/msg00089.html (9,908 bytes)
37. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:03:59 -0800; There are fiberglass posts about 1/4" in diameter for electric fences. You can saw them down. Strips of a black polyethylene cutting board. Bamboo skewers or wood chopsticks? you can buy long sticks; /archives//html/Towertalk/2020-02/msg00090.html (7,885 bytes)
38. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Robert Harmon <k6uj@pacbell.net>; Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:57:06 -0800; I used 1/2" black poly tube for sprinkler systems for my open wire line spreaders. Works great. You can get a 50 foot roll at Home Depot for $8.00 Bob K6UJ ___________________________________________; /archives//html/Towertalk/2020-02/msg00091.html (8,765 bytes)
39. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Dan Maguire <danac6la@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:51:17 -0800; That's called a "Coupled-Resonator" dipole. For details on modeling something like that see: https://ac6la.com/aecollection4.html#15b Dan, AC6LA I added a #14 THHN wire spaced 12" above my 40 meter r; /archives//html/Towertalk/2020-02/msg00094.html (8,156 bytes)
40. Re: [TowerTalk] Fan Dipole (score: 1): Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:53:20 -0800; Tom Schiller, N6BT, has produced a lot of great designs using this technique, and may have been the originator of it. His book is sort of rambling and is in serious need of an editor, but the technic; /archives//html/Towertalk/2020-02/msg00095.html (9,926 bytes)

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