I ordered a Hustler 6-BTV trap vertical to replace an existing installation of a 43 foot vertical. I have 60 radials from 30 to 60 feet long with a DX Engineering radial plate. The antenna is fed wit
I did the opposite a while back, took down the 6BTV for a 43' Vertical. 1. Yes. With a good ground.lots of radials, don't be surprised if the antenna needs to be shorter than you can adjust it. You m
Hi, Phil - I found on my installation of a 6-BTV that trap tuning was necessary to get the best tuning over my 45 radial field. I used a bulkhead for some time until I installed a DX Engineering chok
Mickey - what sort of differences did you see when you swapped out the 6-BTV for the 43' vertical? I'm potentially interested in the same swap, so I'm curious to know what you saw. Thanks, Matt KK4CP
I installed a 6 BTV with 45 radials and needed to adjust the 15 meter trap calibration. Was easy according to DXE instructions. I found it's performance to be quite good compared to my HyGain AV-640
I have a discussion of the 43 ft vertical on our club website www.sdxa.org Click Articals to see it. In addition, I think it is not often realized that the coax feedline outer shield acts as one of t
I always use the DXE VFCC Choke. To my knowledge, It has been quite effective. Well worth the dollars spent. Best Regards Dan Schaaf == K3ZXL www.k3zxl.com == I have a discussion of the 43 ft vertica
RX was immediately noticably better. Noise sources, too. Works generally fine 40-10 meters, but it's a bit short for 80m, it appears. I can tune it, but I'm not happy with the results. I have about 3
I am not sure what his reasons are for changing antennas, however I have modeled a 43' vertical and found it be a horrible performer on some bands, especially 10m. Also it seems like it would be a pa
Thanks for all the comments. After trying several brands of remote tuners and having various bands not tune on all of them, I opted to a switch to a trap antenna, the 6-BTV. I am a patient guy and ha
I have had great results with dipoles hung in trees. John KK9A Have the same experience hanging various verticals from trees. I guess if you have a perfect, non-conducting tree it will work. Unfortun
I'm not sure one would ever notice the tree effects on HF. There are lots of other things (e.g., no balun at the feedpoint, feedline routing and objects in the near field, ground terrain variations )
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 10:59:46 -0400
I have Satellite, and off the air TV. Several trees grew into the "line-of-sight" between the antenna and UHF station. It's not true that with digital you either receive, or don't receive the signal.
I have for the last 8 years had to use only vertical wires hung over trees (see in QRZ my "spud gun" that gets them up.) I have the required radial bed below but I have no options but to have my HI-Z
On 4/9/14 7:59 AM, Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote: On 4/9/2014 10:04 AM, Brian Alsop wrote: I'm not sure one would ever notice the tree effects on HF. There are lots of other things (e.g., no balun at the