- 1. [TowerTalk] HyGain HyTower Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Dan Schaaf" <dan-schaaf@att.net>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:16:20 -0400
- I am looking to understand how the HyTower can be advertised as a 1/4 wave antenna on 80 meters. The standard 1/4 wave length at 3.6 MHz is approximately 65 feet, yet this antenna is 53 feet tall on
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-08/msg00035.html (7,225 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TowerTalk] HyGain HyTower Questions (score: 1)
- Author: Dan <n5ar@air-pipe.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:55:19 -0700
- Dan: The HyTower top tubing stinger is insulated from the tower top and connected to a wire which runs down the center of the tower to the base where it is connected. The capacitance between the wire
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-08/msg00037.html (8,516 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TowerTalk] HyGain HyTower Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Tim Duffy K3LR" <k3lr@k3lr.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:33:39 -0500
- Hello Dan! The original HyTower was designed for the "high end" of 80 meters (above 3.9 MHz). To use it below 3.9 required the addition of the base inductor. When I decided to build my 80 meter 4 squ
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-08/msg00040.html (9,221 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TowerTalk] HyGain HyTower Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Winkis" <kc4pe@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:19:29 -0400
- WOW ... this is a revelation....!! I've used HyTowers for the past 40 years and have never heard of this approach which is timely as I'm ready to strip my stock HyTower down to just 40/80 meter opera
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-08/msg00045.html (11,064 bytes)
- 5. Re: [TowerTalk] HyGain HyTower Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Allen R. Brier" <n5xz@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:46:54 -0800
- I would like to see that also. Allen Brier N5XZ / KL5DX 1515 Windloch Lane Richmond, TX 77406-2533 281-342-1882 713-705-4801 (Cell) n5xz@arrl.net --Original Message-- From: Bill Winkis [mailto:kc4pe@
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-08/msg00069.html (12,003 bytes)
- 6. Re: [TowerTalk] HyGain HyTower Questions (score: 1)
- Author: Tim Kass <timkass@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:31:41 -0400
- Hey all, guess I will throw in my experience with the HyTower for whatever its worth. I got my Hytower off an old elmer but live in a city lot in Cincinnati, Oh. Verticals never seemed to do well for
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-08/msg00072.html (15,347 bytes)
- 7. Re: [TowerTalk] HyGain HyTower Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Tim Duffy K3LR" <k3lr@k3lr.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 22:51:04 -0500
- Hi Allen (and others)! Here is what I built: Length then Diameter Or Length then Face width for the 3 tower sections 96" 15.5" face 92.5" 13" face 92.5" 11" face 51" 2" OD 24" 2.5" OD 110.5" 2" OD 62
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-08/msg00073.html (11,282 bytes)
- 8. Re: [TowerTalk] HyGain HyTower Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Tod -ID" <tod@k0to.us>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:07:59 -0600
- For those who are thinking about making changes similar to the K3LR changes let me add some reinforcement. Like Tim I removed [and carefully saved] all of the stubs and associated hardware. I changed
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-08/msg00075.html (8,720 bytes)
- 9. [TowerTalk] HyGain HyTower questions (score: 1)
- Author: r miles <greenacres113@charter.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:44:45 -0400 (EDT)
- I just picked up a used one.It was disassembled already. One part I can't locate in the list. Maybe it was homemade & added. It's a 1 inch x 1.5 inch x 1/16'' thick copper L. It has what appears to b
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-03/msg00405.html (7,280 bytes)
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