I was an early participant in the SAL yahoo group and introduced Dan, AC6LA, to
the group. He has provided a lot of modeling tools.
That said, I lost interest after feeling that the design was too complicated,
not well understood and suffered from a dizzying number of changes. I could be
totally wrong about this, but that was my assessment some time ago and frankly I
haven't kept up.
Wes N7WS
On 12/27/2018 4:15 PM, Arthur Delibert wrote:
You may also want to check out the SAL-12, -20 or -30 antennas from Array
Solutions. My yard is pretty small, but I was able to put up a SAL-12, and I
love it. (I do mostly 49-, 60- and 90-meter SWBC DX.) I can switch the
antenna to any one of 8 different directions, and I'm often surprised to find
that the DX is coming from a direction different from what I would expect.
Often there's a very pronounced peak in the signal when the antenna is pointed
in the right direction, and I really would not have had any copy if I couldn't
point in that direction.
The SAL-12 isn't especially good on 160, but is good from 3 MHz and higher.
The SAL-20 and -30 are reportedly very good on 160. If I recall right, the
SAL-20 is directional up to 20 meters; the SAL-30 is good up to 40 meters.
Check the Array Solutions website to confirm.
These aren't as cheap as putting up your own pennant, but above 3 MHz, the
SAL-12 aimed NE almost always outperforms my pennant pointed in the same
direction.
Regards,
Art Delibert, KB3FJO
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