On 11/22/02 11:36 PM, David L. Thompson at thompson@mindspring.com wrote:
>Doug was looking for a 75/80 antenna that would let him compete with the
>W1/W2 gang and here is what he decided upon....He already had a 125 ft three
>legged tower with a 6 element 20 meter beam on it. He extended the boom of
>the 20 meter beam (he does not say how much in the article ) and added a
>vertical reflector and director and tied the wires down with a deadman made
>from bricks.
This was a great article! It certainly made a lasting impression on my
brother and I, since we still joke about this 80m beam configuration from
time to time.
As I remember it, the article was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. It's hard to
tell if the author was actually serious about using the configuration
described. Especially the part about being beat out by someone who was
using a full-sided quad (the guy now hiding out down in KP4-land with a
heck of a lot of wire...).
30 years ago, this would have been an awesome configuration. Today, there
are a few hams who have shortened 80m beams that are likely more
effective, and NQ4I is planning to stack a couple of them at his new QTH.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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