[RTTY] RTTY Contesting and Verticals

[Barry]

When I first set up my SO2R station, I had a pair of TH7s stacked.  To 
minimize potential interactions, I put up a ground-mounted Hygain 
vertical about 200 ft from the tower.  A dummy load worked better!

I remember calling a KP4 on 15m and I got beat out by everyone, and I 
was running high power.  I couldn't get through until nobody else was 
calling.  Sooo, I put a third TH7 on the tower at 25 feet (yes, 25 feet) 
fed separately from the stack.  I did A/B comparisons vs. the vertical, 
and the average difference was 6 S-units.  After that experience, I 
swore off (and at) verticals for the high bands.

73,
Barry W2UP

Gedking at aol.com wrote:
> Stick that 2 el 40 at 120 ft and someplace in the world will always be  open. 
> " quote Jamie N8TT"
> ED K8OT
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> In a message dated 3/27/2009 12:06:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> ws7i at ewarg.org writes:
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> Just  thought I would add some comments on Verticals.  I have used butternuts 
>  for some time in various configurations.  I started with it roof mounted  
> using the kit from butternut with about 10 additional radials.
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> That  worked the best BTW. 
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> Later I ground mounted it and had rather  extensive radials as I installed 
> them prior to putting in a lawn.  I then  tried phasing two of the butternuts 
> but that never worked as well as a  2-element old Hygain yagi at 40 feet on 40 
> meters.
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> The best butternut I  have ever used was at Hal Blegens back in our eary 
> contest days. It was  mounted on top of his tower at just over 100 feet.  Hard to 
> believe some  of the stuff we did to try and get a single tower M/S station  
> going.
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> That was one band opening and closing antenna and it worked on  all bands 
> 10-80 quite well.
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Barry Kutner, W2UP             Newtown, PA