I've pretty well figured out what I will be doing on 40-6 meters. However, 80
is still undecided. Shunt feeding the tower is not going to work since I have
all kinds of rotating antennas up the side of the tower. So, I'm left with
three solutions.
Since the last guy point is at 96 ft I could have two inverted Vees apexed at
96 feet down to around 60 ft on the ends, at right angles to each other. That
would give me the ability to switch directions and gain/lose around 5-10 db.
Second choice is to have a full size wire vertical with 60 full sized radials
over average ground.
Third choice is more complex- a wire 4 square but...although the SE and SW
facing verticals would be pretty close to having a good radial system The NE
facing one is pretty limited due to lot lines and the location of the
house/garage and the NW facing antenna is even more limited by the same
constraints. This one has a driveway in the way. Most of the decent sized
radials would be pointing away from the direction the NE and NW are facing and
the others would be fairly short.
Of course laying down the radials for the 4 square is quite a chore and I would
hate to go through all that work to come up with crappy system. Easiest of
course, would be the inverted Vees. I've used this system in the past and it
performed quite well. I'm concerned the lack of similar radial systems would
ruin the F/B and gain and the compromised radial system of two of the antennas
would also be an issue.
Your thoughts?
Bill KH7XS/K4XS (soon to be V31XX)
Location of the station is V31 and interest is contesting and DXing
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