[CQ-Contest] Contest QTH

Bill Tippett btippett at alum.mit.edu
Sun May 23 13:51:10 PDT 2010


	While salt water is definitely good for verticals, but it doesn't 
help horizontally polarized antennas like Yagis.  For the low bands 
(160/80) where construction of large Yagis is a mechanical challenge, 
a 4SQ is hard to beat.  However for the higher bands, it's difficult 
for a vertical array's gain to compete with the ground gain and 
stacking gain of a Yagi stack.  An ideal solution might be a 
combination of both (4SQs for 80/160 and Yagi stacks for 40-10).

73,  Bill  W4ZV



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