TopBand: 160m Ground Systems

[Fred Hopengarten]

From:
Fred Hopengarten, K1VR
Six Willarch Road * Lincoln, MA 01773-5105 * 617/259-0088
e-mail:  k1vr@juno.com or k1vr@k1vr.jjm.com
Big antennas, high in the sky, are better than small ones, low.


On Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:34:23 -0500 (EST) "Bill Fisher, N4VJ / K4AAA"
<km9p@contesting.com> writes:
>
>
>Ya but what is the difference between those two antennas to JA from W1 
>by LP ??
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>Bill Fisher, N4VJ & K4AAA (EX KM9P)
>http://www.contesting.com 


K1VR:  OK OK, the Yagi (Cushcraft 40-02CD) may be better to JA by long
path, but not by much.  On the other hand, the difference is whopping big
into Europe.

Here's another comparison on verticals vs. horizontals:  W1CF's 80 meter
4 sq could never beat WA1EKV's (he's got a new call now, something like
N1KW) 3 el-80  KLM at 125 on a big ridge.  W1CF always claimed that if
you could get a two element wire Yagi, a half wave high, to play on 160,
you'd be king of the band.  Even he, Chairman of the Board of a Fortune
500 Company (M/A-COM, formerly Microwave Associates), could not see
erecting 262 foot towers for the purpose, however.

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