Gentlemen,
I have been looking at the big steppir vertical, which appears to be a pretty
nice antenna, especially if used over a large bed of radials. This antenna
seems to have possibilities for 80m as well. I am wondering if a skilled person
could remove and modify the top end of the antenna to have an internal set of
adequate spring loaded contacts that the end of the internal slide wire would
slide into when the wire is fully extended.Then one could attach a piece of
braid connected to those contacts and then to an eyelet or other external
contact on or near the top of the antenna shell. From there it would be easy to
add a 30' or 95' piece of wire and either slope the wire up or down, or run it
straight out to a tree. This would not allow any tuning by the steppir control
box, but would most likely work on a choice range of frequencies. If I purchase
one I plan to try this.
73, Tom W0HH
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