Hey Stan,
This is very interesting reading and something I have honestly never thought
about whatsoever !
hmmm. I'm all about a free lunch when it comes to antennas.
While I have no intention of erecting a WARC or 60m antenna and attaching it
to any of my many 'main band' 4-squares here, I wonder what would happen if
I (for example) put up a 20m vertical and attached it to the dump port in
the middle of my 20m 4-square array? Surely someone has tried this and done
some measurements?
With tons of snow in my yard, I am not about to try it, but it would be an
interesting experiment for our month of summer here in VE9.
Even 0.5dB gain or cleaning up of a pattern would be worth the effort.
hmmm.
Mike VE9AA
Terry,
I used to have an 80m dipole that radiated the dump power from my 80m 4
Square. Dipole happened to be on edge of a drop off favoring NW where my 4
Square wasn't good because of all the towers in the way of that direction.
Can't say it made huge difference because it may have only been 50-75 watts
but better than warming up a resistor.
73...Stan, K5GO
Mike, Coreen & Corey
Keswick Ridge, NB
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