TopBand: Lazy U for 160 in ARRL SSB Contest.

[Edwin Steeble]

Posted by permission of W3EKT. 
He doesn't have any support higher than the 35 foot "rocket launcher"
tower. I am posting this as an idea for those without a tall support or
live on a smaller lot. I think it would work with coils in the legs, he
says try bending the legs to fit the space available.
73 Ed
K3IXD



>To: pvrc@qth.net
>Subject: [PVRC] Lazy U for 160.
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>From: "Edward  L.  Bruns" <edbruns@juno.com>
>Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 01:02:28 EST
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>Reply-To: "Edward  L.  Bruns" <edbruns@juno.com>
>
>For the ARRL SSB contest, I left up the Lazy U I had for 160,
>but removed the end sections of the "other" dipole to use it
>on 75..so no direct comparison this time. But, I can say that
>I worked NP4A, V47KP, VP9ID, and WP2Z on 160 with the 
>Lazy U installed with the bottom 5 feet off the ground and the 
>top at 35 feet. Barefoot TS-850, hundred watts. I didn't even
>TRY to call any real DX, ie: Europe. And I stayed out of pile ups.
>
>Again, the thing was fed in the center of the vertical 30 foot section,
>no balun, just coax. No attempt was made to pull the coax away at
>a right angle to the wire. The wire was mounted inches from the
>"rocket launcher" used to support the old TA-33 at 35 feet. The tubes
>of the support are 5 inches in diameter, but did not seem to matter.
>No ground radials of any sort, just the #18 wire for the antenna.
>
>The article on this antenna is in the Communications Quarterly, winter 
>of 1992 issue, page 81 By Henry Elwell.
>
>Simple, worked. Ed, W3EKT.
>



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