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Subject: | Re: Topband: Caged Inv-L - Pros and Cons ? |
From: | Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> |
Reply-to: | jim@audiosystemsgroup.com |
Date: | Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:34:30 -0800 |
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On 1/24/2012 6:29 PM, Dan Bookwalter wrote: > I am considering modifying my Inverted L such that the vertical part (~ 70 > ft) is a cage of say 4 wires , purely for bandwidth. Besides BW any Pro's and > or Con's to this idea ? I'm using two #10 stranded copper wires, spaced roughly 6 inches using some old insulators I bought at hamfests as spacers. It roughly doubles the SWR bandwidth. The only downsides are more wind load and greater visibility. I would expect four wires to be roughly twice as much of all three. :) Expect a small difference in the tuning (resonance). 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK |
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