[CQ-Contest] New category: "Wires only"??

[Kelly Taylor]

I think you have to go by the design parameters of the antenna, not by how
many wires are used.

A rhombic is by its nature four long wire antennas in a stacked array, as it
were. Just like a half-square is multiple elements, even if created using
only one piece of wire.

73, kelly
ve4xt
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242 at ispwest.com>
To: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <k4ik at subich.com>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] New category: "Wires only"??


> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> At 03:24 PM 1/26/2006, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
> >No - a Rhombic is either a two element (stacked "V" beams) or
> >four element (an array of 4 long wires) antenna depending on how
> >classify it.
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Since when is a rhombic four wires unless you make it that way? One
> piece of wire will do just fine unless you want it terminated, in
> which case it's still only two pieces, same as a dipole.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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