When we talk about directional gain antennas, the discussion usually centers on yagis. Well, I need some help in a different area. This past weekend I was visiting with a ham buddy that works for a l
Hi Bryan. Rhombics and more rhombics. 40 footers would be good for the higher bands, but might be a little low for 80. W6AM had a field full of rhombics and we all know how he did!!! -- FAQ on WWW: h
Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 20:50:38 -0400 (EDT)
I always wanted a Curtain antenna. maybe those poles will be tall enuf? I had a rombic (rhombic?) 500 ft of wire on each of four sides. Heard like a bandit! A lightning strike on the horizon would gi
On Mon, 06 Oct 1997 14:19:12 -0500, Bryan <bryan@prodistributors.com> wrote: _______________________________________________________________ You can get some real high gain, but with only 40 feet of
above snipped... W6AM also never buried a single inch of those poles, and to attain the height, he mounted them base to base...been too long to remember the specifics, but it was weird looking at po
Yes, W6AM's poles were "butt-spliced," a technique you can learn about in Edmund LaPort's classic "Radio Antenna Engineering" (pp 357-358). Many of the military and commercial Rhombic antenna farms o
Re: butt-spliced poles If anyone is ever in Palo Alto (southwest part of the SF Bay Area), you can see these type of poles. They are right along Highway 101 on the east side, between San Antonio Road
I seem to recall that W6AM used a lot of poles for Rhombics and they were spliced. I think they were spliced butt to butt and guyed. You could make 80 foot poles out of two forty footers. Might be w