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Re: [TowerTalk] 160m Slopers

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 160m Slopers
From: "john@kk9a.com" <john@kk9a.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 07:05:42 -0500
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I would consider this a wire vertical, I have used one many times. The
tower slightly changes the pattern, in my case it acts as a reflector. 
The configuration that K9YC describes worked well for me, it was easy to
adjust and it has predictable results.

John KK9A


To:     towertalk@contesting.com
Subject:        Re: [TowerTalk] 160m Slopers
From:   Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to:       jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:13:34 -0800

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>On Wed,1/25/2017 7:23 PM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
>This is a half sloper so the tower is a radiator.

Not necessarily -- it depends on how it is being fed. I have two wires
sloping off my 120 ft tower. They are insulated from the tower and fed
from the bottom against four radials elevated about 20 ft. I feed one or
the other, but not both. The tower, with a 3-el SteppIR and long 2M yagi
is long enough to act as a reflector, yielding about 6 dB of F/B. Because
the tower is part of the antenna, I have 8 quarter wave on-ground radials
on it.

This is, of course, not the only way to feed wires sloping off of a tower,
and some nice looking arrays are in the ARRL Handbook and/or Antenna Book.

73, Jim K9YC



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