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Re: Topband: Low Dipoles

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Subject: Re: Topband: Low Dipoles
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:37:36 -0800
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On 12/14/2020 9:44 AM, donovanf@erols.com wrote:
Bill's excellent: "You can never have too many antennas!"

For 160M contests, N6RO patches many components of his extensive antenna farm to the operating desk for use as RX antennas.

is often quoted with my important corollary:


"unless they interfere with each other"

which they all too often do...

Yes. When I added a 120 ft tower and sloping wire 160 verticals to it about ten years ago, N6BV and NI6T each told me in separate conversations that I should look for interactions with the tower, those sloping wires, and an existing Tee vertical about 200 ft away. I had already discovered the interaction between the Tee and coax feedlines to my high dipoles, and added ferrite chokes to suppress it.

I spent much of a summer studying those interactions in NEC, discovering that if I terminated unused feedlines for the 160 antennas, I could make the Tee a reflector for the sloping wires and the sloping wires plus the tower a reflector for the Tee, yielding me about 2 dB switchable to EU, JA, and to the south.

73, Jim K9YC

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