You could ask around, pick up a couple of old yagis from one band or
another, fill up the gas tank, go to Home Depot and get some new stainless
clamps, bolts, washer, nuts, design and build a new antenna, search for a
rotator, ( does it work?) buy rotor cable, maybe take another day off of
work, put it on the tower ( oh yeah....we have to GET a tower), dig the
hole, concrete, rebar, (permit?), take another day off, call some buddies
over to help get the TOWER and ANTENNA up, run the cables, test the antenna
and rotor while on the tower, OR
Put up a 6 meter ringo modified for the lower end of the band with $2 worth
of aluminum in order to make a handful of contacts. But....there is that
tower.... My limited experience with 6 meters has indicated that when the
band opens you near to nothing to make contacts. I once worked a guy on
Virginia Beach with a 5 watt battery powered radio from here in Florida.
That is not something that happens everyday. But you have to decide as with
any pursuit how far you want to go. - Good luck. - Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: R. Morris
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 6:31 PM
To: K. Alan Robbins
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] An easy question for the experts on this list
I'm not so sure a Ringo would be better than a dipole.
Most folks, at the bottom of the band, are horizontally polarized. (At
least their antennas)
Half wave dipole on 6 is 4.6 feet on a side. 10 feet of wire, staple gun
and broom stick.
Google Moxon antennas, with a trip to the PVC department of Lowe's, Home
Depot.
Ten bucks of stuff, make something, learn something, before buying some
questionable gadget off the back page.
On 02/04/2012 02:27 PM, K. Alan Robbins wrote:
> Long time lurker first time poster.
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> I have an old Cushcraft AR6 Ringo for 6m, that matches at the top end of
> the
> band but not the bottom. Being short of cash but long on junk box parts,
> I
> am faced with two options:
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> 1) Make the vertical radiator longer to try and get it down to the bottom
> of
> the band
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> 2) Sell the antenna, and some other junk on Ebay and buy one of those
> square
> loop deals
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> Opinions? My 6m powerhouse station is an Alinco DX-70 spare radio at 10w
> so
> I'm not expecting to win any awards, just want an antenna on that band
> that's a little better than a dipole.
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> 73 de W8VCK, Alan in Michigan
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