Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 07:03:00 -0400
From: Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] modeling compare: 80M, 2EL vs 4SQ
I think both John's and Gary's commemnts square with the series on
radials that was on NCJ a few years ago. The message I took away from
those articles is that if your actual ground characteristics are good,
the improvement with radials, no matter how many, will be quite limited,
while if your ground isn't good to start with, radials can make a lot of
difference in the pattern, especially at low angles.
73, Pete N4ZR
## 4 sq is wonderful...provide u have real estate to install it all. w2pv
removed his
4 sq since the grnd conductivity was lousy.
## check out steve, VE6WZ site. He is on a tiny 50 foot wide city lot....
and his 89 ft crank up
tower is only 14 feet away from his side fence. So he made the hb 80m, 2 el
yagi on a 28 ft boom.
It only has 66 ft long, half size eles... coil loaded half way out. yagi is
up 100 feet. He works
Europe on 80m SSB... like a machine gun. b4 that, he had a f12 80m rotary
dipole, also up 100 feet.
Check out his website. These days, with T bar capacity hats part way out each
side,and tornado
drives at the center... motor driven compressible .25 inch tubing coils...u
can have ur cake and eat it too.
Then the yagi will cover the entire band easily, with max gain /fb and flat
swr. 10 pre-sets on the
coils..then manual tune between pre-sets with the digital readout turns
counter.
Jim VE7RF
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