So far I have 3 8 foot copper ground rods and 16 50 to 60 foot 14 gauge
radials. I plan to put down at least 16 more radials. Should I put down 3
more ground rods also? The soil is west Texas sand.
Brad
W5BK
> From: n7mal@citlink.net
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:39:42 +0000
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hy Tower
>
> The most important question for you is: What kind of a ground system do you
> have.?.?.?.?.
>
> MAL
> N7MAL
> BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
> http://www.n7mal.com
> Everyone in the world is
> entitled to be burdened
> by my opinion
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brad Hyde
> To: bhyde@hot.rr.com ; towertalk@contesting.com
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 14:14
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hy Tower
>
>
>
> Sorry guys,
>
> This message got sent out again from an email address which has been
> inactive for 6 months. The hot.rr.com address has been disabled since I
> moved 6 months ago and has not sent out a single email. I guess last night
> it decided to come back to life and send out emails. What is really weird
> is that I subscribed to this site under my present email address and not
> that one. So I don't have a clue how my old email address even got a hold
> of this message, much less sent it out. I'm getting too old to try and
> figure this stuff out, hi.
>
> Anyway, while I have your attention (maybe) I have the Hy Tower up with the
> MK-160. The swr on 160 dips at about 2.0 swr. Is that about as low as I
> can expect? Also, as an interesting side note, I have about a 1.5 on 17
> meters without the 17 meter add on. Also, about a 1.4 on 6 meters. The swr
> on 80 is lowest at 4.00 MHZ and is dipping in that direction indicating that
> my resonant frequency is above 4.00 Mhz. Can I just lengthen the top main
> vertical section to bring the 80 meter frequency down without affecting the
> other band's swr? I would like to have a good swr on 3.795, but it is
> currently above 3.0. Also, is it possible to add a homebrew coil at the
> base to widen the 80 meter band to the CW portion in colaboration to having
> the MK-160 on the tower simultaneously? Is there a way to build the coil in
> a manner that would allow 1500 watts rather than the 300 watts that is
> offered by the Hy Gain coil (the LC-160W)?
> I think that once I get everything t uned up it will be a good system.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
> W5BK
>
>
> > From: bhyde@hot.rr.com
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com
> > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 10:41:52 -0600
> > Subject: [TowerTalk] Hy Tower
> >
> > Hello all,
> > I recently moved and finally have some land in west Tx to play with
> > antennas. I am about finished putting up the Hy Tower 18HT. I am going to
> > put up another one 66 feet away and co-phase them. Does anyone have
> > experience doing this? The manual has info on doing it with different
> > lenghts of 50 ohm cable and 72 ohm cable to have either end fire or
> > broadside radiational pattern availability. Does someone sell the
> > switching system already constructed? I am mainly looking at 40 and 80 for
> > this as I have the TH-11 for the other bands. I also bought the MK-160.
> > Thanks for any help on this.
> >
> > Brad
> > W5BK
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