[RSM] Fwd: Arachnid

[Gord Kosmenko]

Good Morning All,

Arachnid, cognoscenti - not sure if I can hang with folks that have
these advanced word smithing. Oops, that's two nouns, word smithing?

Now for some verbiage;

- Spiderbeam seems to have  great fans in the DX HF world, given it
  is the go-to antenna for many dxpeditions and small garden installations

- here in Western Canada height (IMHO) is the the big dog to antenna
performance
  more so than antenna gain

- height from here also applies to SS as the large QSO wells are in the
2000 kM region
  which requires getting the antenna's main lobe (the gain lobe), takeoff
angle in the
  20 to 30 degree region

- another SS advantage is ensure your call sign has a VE4 in it and
participate in SS CW

- Agree, a 40 foot pole structure coupled to a Spiderbeam is a step up from
low dipoles
  and any vertical antenna for 20M and above

Goosh - hope I don't have any spelling or grammer mistakes or I am going to
get banned from the list (just kidding folks).

Get on the bands and enjoy them.HF is not dead. Here's a tidbit, everyday
(24 hour period) when connected to VE7CC cluster (with Skimmer enabled) it
reports to me an
average of 30,000 to 35,000  spots here - would you say HF is not dead?

73, Gord VE6SV






On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Kelly Taylor <ve4xt at mymts.net> wrote:

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> Begin forwarded message:
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> > From: Kelly Taylor <ve4xt at mymts.net>
> > Date: August 4, 2017 at 21:08:08 CDT
> > To: ve4dxr at shaw.ca
> > Subject: Arachnid
> >
> > Hi Leor,
> >
> > Hope you're having a great summer on that new boat of yours.
> >
> > Let me run this idea by you: for about the price of nothing more than a
> big chunk of concrete, I could get a 47-foot aluminum mast and Spiderbeam.
> >
> > 47 feet would put it at an insignificantly different height than I could
> get from my Delhi.
> >
> > Main interest is having something for SS this year. Putting this out to
> the RSM cognoscenti, as well. Thoughts?
> >
> > 73, kelly, ve4xt
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
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