For reference:
I have a vertically polarized 44 foot dipole I use on 10/20, and a 130 foot
horizontal dipole 130 feet away for 40/15. I made a quickie 50 ohm
termination for the "other" coax and rigged a diode detector and a meter so
I could roughly measure RF. Then I applied full power on one antenna, each
band, and measured voltage. It varied, but was up to a couple volts in the
worst case. A 10+20 rejection stub on the 40/15 antenna, and a 40/15
rejection stub on the other brought the worst case to less than a quarter
volt, as I recall. I see no crosstalk unless I tune directly to a harmonic.
No 80 meter contesting here.
I have no filters (yet)
Jerry W4UK
At 10:07 9/14/02 -0500, Dave LaBat wrote:
>Doing some basic planning. How far away would those of you operating SO2R
>consider the minimum distance between the main antenna (Force 12 C4 at 60
>feet) to a vertical? Are there any good resources on the web for this part
>of a SO2R? All the hits on google referred to software and inside the
>shack issues. I think I want to figure out if the antennas can be placed
>appropriately before I look at the inside issues. Thanks in advance Dave KØXH
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