TopBand: Re: Topband Beam

[N7EX]

Fred Hopengarten wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 


Hmmmm


I can see it now........ four 250' (self supporting) towers mounted on
narrow guage rail cars running in a circle to rotate the thing.

~8^)
Dave
N7EX

Well we can always dream can't we! That's what sets us apart from
chimpanzees.

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