160 sloper

Fri Sep 27 23:52:10 EDT 1996

October issue of CQ has a construction article for a quarter-wave
sloper on 160 meters. I was curious as to what antenna modeling
would predict for resonance if the average contester were to
install one on his tower. The fellow that built this of course was
lucky or smart. The model shows a 160 meter quarter wave sloper
(with a little pruning) attached to a 50 foot tower and a 3 ele
yagi resonates easily inside the band. With the antenna resistance
around 23 ohms and some ground loss a good match to 50 ohm cable
can be made.  

If it were installed on a 70 foot tower the sloper length would
drop to 86 feet and the antenna would be 150 ohms at resonance.
Removing or adding yagi's changes things even more. Trying to find
the right length of the sloper wire empirically on different
tower/antenna combinations might not be a good idea on the morning
of the World Wide. I'm not sure when the better idea would be to
shunt feed the tower or switch to the inverted L. 

Many years ago I had a 70 foot tower with a tribander. I installed
a quarter wave sloper for 75 meters (about 70 feet long) at the top
and it worked very well often out preforming a delta on a 90 foot
tower about 100 feet away. I noticed it was somewhat directive so
I added another and that was the end of slopers for me.    

Rich  KL7RA

>From cns-sd at ix.netcom.com (Art Wallace)  Sat Sep 28 00:36:16 1996
From: cns-sd at ix.netcom.com (Art Wallace) (Art Wallace)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:36:16 -0700
Subject: Fwd: New Kenwood Radio Announced
Message-ID: <199609272336.QAA13148 at dfw-ix1.ix.netcom.com>

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>From w7zrc at micron.net (Rod Greene)  Sat Sep 28 01:07:00 1996
From: w7zrc at micron.net (Rod Greene) (Rod Greene)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 96 18:07 MDT
Subject: 160 sloper
Message-ID: <2.2.16.19960927174309.256f50d6 at micron.net>

Rich,

I have a friend who has the same situation you mention. He has a 70'
Rohn 25 tower with a TH6DXX and HyGain 2 ele 40. A sloper for 80 tunes
well but making a 160 sloper work has not been a successful venture yet.
I was wondering if an additional "tuning stub" wire clamped at the top
of the tower would help to restore the resonance on 160.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

        73, Rod

At 10:52 PM 9/27/96 utc, Gilmore Creek Geophysical Observatory wrote:
>October issue of CQ has a construction article for a quarter-wave
>sloper on 160 meters. I was curious as to what antenna modeling
>would predict for resonance if the average contester were to
>install one on his tower. The fellow that built this of course was
>lucky or smart. The model shows a 160 meter quarter wave sloper
>(with a little pruning) attached to a 50 foot tower and a 3 ele
>yagi resonates easily inside the band. With the antenna resistance
>around 23 ohms and some ground loss a good match to 50 ohm cable
>can be made.  
>
>If it were installed on a 70 foot tower the sloper length would
>drop to 86 feet and the antenna would be 150 ohms at resonance.
>Removing or adding yagi's changes things even more. Trying to find
>the right length of the sloper wire empirically on different
>tower/antenna combinations might not be a good idea on the morning
>of the World Wide. I'm not sure when the better idea would be to
>shunt feed the tower or switch to the inverted L. 
>
>Many years ago I had a 70 foot tower with a tribander. I installed
>a quarter wave sloper for 75 meters (about 70 feet long) at the top
>and it worked very well often out preforming a delta on a 90 foot
>tower about 100 feet away. I noticed it was somewhat directive so
>I added another and that was the end of slopers for me.    
>
>Rich  KL7RA
>
>
----- Rod Greene, w7zrc at micron.net, <>< -----

>From jwthompson at key-net.net (John W. Thompson)  Sat Sep 28 02:01:43 1996
From: jwthompson at key-net.net (John W. Thompson) (John W. Thompson)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 21:01:43 -0400
Subject: SOAB
Message-ID: <19960928010142328.AAA195 at LOCALNAME>

One thing these guys forgot to mention:
Those contesters who contest to STOP hallucinating...
Yes, the voices stop about 11PM EST Sat. nite....
Wasn't that idea of fusing with your radio STOLEN from Koontz's "Midnight?"
73, JT  K3MD  jwthompson at dubois.key-net.net

>From donovanf at sgate.com (Frank Donovan)  Sat Sep 28 02:01:09 1996
From: donovanf at sgate.com (Frank Donovan) (Frank Donovan)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 21:01:09 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Multiple-Choice Packet-in-Contests Quiz (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960927205701.29647A-100000 at jekyll.sgate.com>

Rick,
I have a HUGE problem with your recommendation!  If an operator
misrepresents the class he was competing in, what else in his log might
also be misrepresented??

If an operator is using packet spots, and enters as SO, the only
legitimate disposition of the entry is disqualification.

73!
Frank
W3LPL
donovanf at sgate.com
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>Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 19:03:33 +0000
>From: "Rick Craig, N6ND" <n6nd at n6nd.wanet.com>
>To: cq-contest at tgv.com
>Subject: Re: Multiple-Choice Packet-in-Contests Quiz
>If you can make a good case that a single op station is using 
>packet spots to find multipliers, then his log should be reclassified to
>SOA.  What's the problem with that??  If the committee (or judges)
>doesn't have the balls to enforce the contest rules, then we are all
>beating a dead horse.