Re: Topband: Feeding a Cell Tower for 160?

["Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:28:37 -0800, Tree wrote:

>Half wave sloping dipoles - off in several key directions - 
>would be simple to put up and should perform very well.

I have done exactly that at an old AT&T long lines site near 
Sacramento. It is a loaded half wave that is about 170 ft long, and it 
DOES work very well. Expect gain on the order of 3 dB in the direction 
of the slope. 

Jim Brown K9YC



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