On many bands the 43' vertical would work better if used as a center
support for an inverted V.
John KK9A
To: Towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Hustler 6-BTV installation
From: Tom Osborne <w7why@frontier.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:43:37 -0700
On 4/8/2014 4:25 AM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
I just read the Joel Hallas, W1ZR article - "The 43 foot vertical monopole
- What's the magic?". It was very interesting! The coax losses are worse
than I imagined, up to 8dB though 100 feet of RG-213, and as my model
showed the radiation is very high above 20m. Certainly a relay to
electrically shorten the antenna would help 15m and 10m.
John KK9A
I always wondered why someone would pay $400- $500 for a '43 foot
vertical' when you can hang about $1.50 worth of wire in a tree and do the
same thing.
We had one of those for FD and it was not a very good antenna. 73
Tom W7WHY
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