I am about 500 yards from the beach and 120' ASL.
Looking at the 3 year old aluminum boxes of the AC units it is pretty scary
that everything rusts, even aluminum. I can't imagine a rotator lasting too
long.
Plan B is to attach to palm trees 2 x A4S yagis fixed on NA (330) and EU (30
degrees); they won't be very high though.
Rudy N2WQ
Sent using a tiny keyboard. Please excuse brevity, typos, or inappropriate
autocorrect.
> On Jun 25, 2017, at 8:09 PM, Ria Jairam <rjairam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rudy,
>
> They aren't needed if you're close to the water. Many have used verticals on
> the beach with great success. Especially since we are headed for solar
> minimum low bands will be more easily done with verticals.
>
> For beams and towers, salt water air could be a problem, especially if you're
> on the east coast since the trade wind blows from the Northeast. I remember
> in NE Trinidad even the telephone lines were always noisy due to corroded
> connections. But it's not an insurmountable problem and if you're inland it's
> not too much of an issue.
>
> Ria
> N2RJ
>> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 9:55 PM Rudy Bakalov via CQ-Contest
>> <cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
>> The subject says it all. I was wondering what the experience of those of you
>> who have contested from the Caribbean is. Assuming running full 1500W power,
>> is a beam really required? Is it more important to hear well than to be
>> heard (my assumption)?
>> So, here's the big picture- we have a vacation rental property on HR9 and
>> I'd like to make it available to hams/contesters as well. On the flip side,
>> I am very concerned about the appearance of towers, beams, etc.
>> From HR9, I really need to directions- 330 for NA and 30 for EU. I can do
>> them easily with two OCF dipoles. The dipoles will be about 30' up, the
>> property is on a hill and the elevation drops by about 20' about 30 yards
>> from the house and a total of 130' about 500 yards from the house. Further,
>> I plan on building full size verticals for 40 and 80 and some sort of a full
>> size sloping vertical for 160. 4SQ RX plus beverages in the two directions I
>> mentioned already.
>> Is this setup enough for competitive SOAB effort/score? Do I need to include
>> a tower, rotator, and a beam? The maintenance of anything in the Caribbean
>> scares the heck out of me.
>> Rudy N2WQ
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