Hello Guys and Gals, Recently Tree did some work for me and one of the things was to put up the Comtek 80 meter 4-Square switching unit and a couple of pulley setups for my raising of the 80 meter sl
Terry, I assume you only installed ONE sloper and made your measurements ? With all 4 installed there is way to much mutual coupling to get a meaningful reading. If your readings were from only ONE a
Yes, install ONE sloper. . .measure and cut to resonance. Duplicate that measurement for the other three. 73. . .Dave, W0FLS Terry, I assume you only installed ONE sloper and made your measurements ?
Essential point that might be missed: each one of the elements, one at a time, must be tuned independently with the other three elements down. This is the initial tuning. If when everything hooked up
Interesting. This is not how I tuned my 40m 4-square, albeit with tubular elements not slopers. Anyway, my understanding is that you disconnect all four elements from the control box and measure at t
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I might have done that. It was 20 years ago :) From: MrToby <mrtoburen7@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 7:11 PM To: Dick Green WC1M <wc1m73@gmail.com> Cc: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.c
On 2018-10-12 7:10 PM, MrToby wrote: You dont have to lower them but you need to short them to ground to make them electrically invisible No, with 1/4 wave elements you must *open* the feed point - d
Joe is correct. On 10/12/2018 5:45 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: On 2018-10-12 7:10 PM, MrToby wrote: You dont have to lower them but you need to short them to ground to make them electrically invisibl
FYI concerning my 80 meter 4-Square using sloping dipoles.... I have now disconnected all four 75 ohm links from the Comtek box. The 75 ohm stubs are just left hanging, not shorted or anything. Comte