If you come up with a antenna that radiates and gives full coverage
on a 100' wire and No Tuner you can retire.
Even with a tuner, signals will not be much. I think I would scratch
160 and 80 and put up a fan dipole and even then u will not get full
coverage on each band.
Bill Fisher - W4AN wrote:
> > N4 RJ was using 26' for his lowest stack on 10 with highest at 74'. This
> > antenna was a real door buster any direction on 10 (a stack of 4 Cushcraft
> > 4el beams).
>
> N4RJ did use a 4 high stack of 4 element Cushcraft 10's once. We
> decided that the performance of this stack was not up to snuff. The same
> was determined for the 4 high stack of 15's.
>
> What we finally went to and was a KILLER system was a stack of K3LR 6
> element yagis on 34 or 36 foot booms. The stack was fed with large heliax
> and was located very close to the shack. The heights were 60 over 30 and
> the antennas rotated together, always in phase. This antenna allowed me
> to work Europeans in to the late afternoon, and I would constantly get
> reports like "you are the only station we are hearing". This was never
> the case on the 4 high stack or on the K3LR antennas when they were at 90'
> over 45'.
>
> On 15 meters we went to longer booms also. The heights were 90 over 45.
> This stack was also a killer.
>
> 73
>
> Bill - W4AN - K4AAA
>
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