- 1. [TowerTalk] Full Wave Loop Through Trees (score: 1)
- Author: "Pat Chiles" <chilesp@adelphia.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:01:03 -0400
- I have spent the morning trying to fish an 80M loop through trees. I am usually pretty good at this type thing, but this one has defied my best attempts. I am thinking about using the bow and arrow t
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-10/msg00677.html (7,257 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TowerTalk] Full Wave Loop Through Trees (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:17:58 -0700
- Since my new QTH is in a redwood forest, I've been studying this out of necessity. :) I've seen "in the literature," HF antennas still work in the presence of foliage, although they might be pulled d
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-10/msg00678.html (7,991 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TowerTalk] Full Wave Loop Through Trees (score: 1)
- Author: wa3afs@inav.net
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:10:47 -0500
- I use a compound bow and arrow (fishing arrow since it has a nice hole in the rear of the arrow and I also place a screw-on BNC connector on the front of the arrow as a weight) to put up my coaxial i
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-10/msg00679.html (9,160 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TowerTalk] Full Wave Loop Through Trees (score: 1)
- Author: "David Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:45:21 -0400
- I put up a 80 meter loop at my St. Simons Island, GA (IOTA 058) home in late 1991. I just looped it thru the trees. I do have an insulator on one side (this side broke twice). I had to add 12 feet to
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-10/msg00680.html (8,827 bytes)
- 5. Re: [TowerTalk] Full Wave Loop Through Trees (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Turner <dezrat@copper.net>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:04:23 -0800
- ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- By "without insulators" if you mean the loop wire is touching the tree itself, you are asking for trouble. Trees have been set on fire by arcing from antennas, e
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-10/msg00769.html (7,917 bytes)
- 6. Re: [TowerTalk] Full Wave Loop Through Trees (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike, K6BR" <noddy1211@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:12:42 -0800
- I agree Bill, having had the dead fronds of a Palm tree touch the end of a Carolina Windom. The result was a complete Palm tree fire within 5 minutes of operating at 400 watts on 80 meters. It was sp
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-10/msg00776.html (9,120 bytes)
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