Hello Bill,
To add a bit of context.
Two of my 190 foot towers are spaced 300 feet apart and intentionally
set on an azimuth of 45 degrees.
On a catenary rope strung between them at the top, I have a 4 element,
80 meter delta loop array. it is on a 225 foot virtual boom and is fed
for horizontal polarization with home made 600 ohm feed line. On a 4 by
4 post, I have a home made tuning unit fed by 7/8 inch 75 ohm coax back
to the shack.
Use EZNEC to set it all up. As I recall, it shows the major lobe at 22
degrees and substantial F/B ratio.
I also have a full size 4 square, with 80 radials under each. The
'quad' (actually delta loop) array has never been inferior to the 4
square toward EU, and on occasion, is as much as 2 S-units better. With
good conditions, and a good operator, we have made over 1400 CW contacts
in a 48 hour contest.
That's the story on that...
73 de Steve, NR4M
On 2/15/2016 4:21:PM, Bill Turner wrote:
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On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:06:19 -0500, Steve wrote:
Last minute repairs to 80 meter quad reflector wire the broke.
REPLY:
An 80 meter quad??? That's worth a story all by itself. :-)
Congratulations on an outstanding score!
73, Bill W6WRT
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