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Subject: [TowerTalk] phased verticals for 40/80
From: k1vr@juno.com (Fred Hopengarten)
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:04:50 EST
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Fred Hopengarten  K1VR               617/259-0088
Six Willarch Road
Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
permanent e-mail address:  fhopengarten@mba1972.hbs.edu

On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:34:51 -0800 Christoph Rheker
<christor@MICROSOFT.com> writes:

>last winter I have used a 2 Ele phased vertical array on
>40 with some success. I am now planing to build a similar
>array for 80 meters. (Of course, to be finished before CQWW CW..)
>
>Is there a minimum recommended distance between the two
>antennas to avoid interaction between them? I am planing
>to place them abt 15-20 meters apart.


K1VR replies:

        I have a two element vertical phased array on 80 and a four
element vertical phased array on 40.  The "west" element of the 80 is
about 85 feet from the "east" element of the 40 and I experience no
interaction.  Just one data point.

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