Hello fellow Topbanders! Had lots of fun in the Stew, thanks for the contacts everyone! Looking forward to the CQ160 and as always trying to find a way to improve antenna performance.... so looking f
Hi Dan, An inverted-L with one elevated radial has lots of room for improvement, almost anything will improve what you now have. How much improvement you can achieve is mostly determined by site limi
Hi Dan, Your small lot is an ideal candidate for K2AV's folded counterpoise. Contact K2AV for guidance, he's helped countless successful users. www.k2av.com A few clarifications regarding radials and
Frank what about adding another radial to each vertical to cancel the Horizontal polarisation from the single radial. 73 Clive GM3POI Hi Dan, Your small lot is an ideal candidate for K2AV's folded co
Hi Clive, A second resonant radial is a good idea, but not because it might cancel horizontally polarized radiation. Why? Because -- just like a Beverage -- a horizontal wire close to the ground has
In addition to what Frank has written, I suggest that you study this link for ideas. http://k9yc.com/160MPacificon.pdf FWIW, I heard you pretty solidly every time I tuned the band for an S&P run duri
Yes I can concur that you were a pretty solid signal here in Europe during the Stew Perry Contest Dan ! 73 Roger G3YRO _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topb
I was under the impression that If you have elevated radials and if you take even one to the ground you might as well move all to the ground..??Fred KB4QZH -- Original message --From: donovanf@erols
Some kind person got permission and put this copyrighted paper online: https://www.okdxf.eu/files/Ground%20Systems%20-%20Brown,%20Lewis%20and%20Epstein%201937.pdf Dr. Brown was noted for such things