In a message dated 10/19/2006 12:26:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
towertalk-request@contesting.com writes:
> A beam made from inverted vees won't work very well at low height.
However if you can keep the ends at about 50 ft above ground it should
do pretty good. It will be a killer for stateside, but even for DX a 2
element version should outperform a single vertical in one direction.
This antenna takes up a LOT of space.
N7ML in Montana had two 195' rotating towers and he put a catenary between
them. The towers were inline to EU and he put a 6 element 75M wire beam
(inverted vees) on it. I listened to SP7GIQ one morning during the ARRL DX CW
tests
and he was S8-9 - wow. Mike also had a 2 element bobtail that only heard
noise. It was pretty impressive. Highly recommended if you can do it!
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
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