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Subject: [TowerTalk] 80m antenna
From: n4kg@juno.com (T A RUSSELL)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:32:21 -0600
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:50:26 EDT K7LXC@aol.com writes:
>
>In a message dated 98-08-19 16:10:03 EDT, w9rpm@lse.fullfeed.com 
>writes:
>
><< My question is will this be possible  without interaction 
><<and will it perform better than the inverted V for  80m?
>
>  Yes. A high horizontal dipole is a wonderful antenna. 
> An inverted  vee has some cancellation problems that 
> reduce it's efficiency a bunch (scientific term). 
>
>     I put up a F12 dipole for a client. His first contact on 75M was
>Antarctica.
>
>Cheers,  Steve   K7LXC

Steve,  et. al.,

I put up an 80M inverted vee and my first contact was VK0IR 
an hour  later on 80M  CW,  followed  by   S21XX  a few weeks
later.   Glad I didn't know about the cancellation!  :-)
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de   Tom   N4KG
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( Well, OK,  the apex  is at 140 ft. )


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