I will give the sloper my vote. I am using a sloper which is bonded to my 86
foot tower at the 72 foot level. I have 4 wires on and can cover 1.8 to 1.86
(approx) , 3.500 to 3.850 (with a 1.8 to 1 swr or better) and also 30m. I am
getting an interaction between the 30m and two 80m wires I think and I may
be changing the 30m wire for a 60m wire.
This has proved to be a very effective resonant antenna for me.
73 Mark N1UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Hargrave" <w5ifp@gvtc.com>
To: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 04 July, 2012 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Second antenna options?
> Rick,
>
> I have had good results using inverted V and slopers off the tower. I
> placed
> insulators in my upper guy wires and feed them with a single 50 ohm coax
> at
> the top apex. The shield is bonded to the tower leg at the feed point. I
> have tuned them to 80/60/40 & 12m.
>
> If you tune one of them to an active band covered by the beam, it might
> skew
> the results. I have never done that so can't provide any insight. However
> my
> 40M sloper works on 15m and does not seem to interfere with the 15m beam
> pattern. But that's just a non-engineered observation.
>
> 73s de Jim
> W5IFP
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rick Kiessig
> > Sent: July 03, 2012 11:59 PM
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com
> > Subject: [TowerTalk] Second antenna options?
> >
> > With a tower in-place that doesn't have enough height to stack a second
> > beam, and without another high spot to use for something like
> > an elevated
> > dipole, what are some good options for a second antenna that
> > covers one or
> > two of the same bands as the primary beam?
> >
> >
> >
> > 73, Rick ZL2HAM
>
>
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