What ever did happen to N7ML? I used to work him all the time
on 80m LP but all of a sudden he was gone, I haven´t heard him
in years.
73 Jim SM2EKM
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K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
>
> 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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