Topband: Gap Voyager

[Sante - IK0HBN]

Hi Declan,

I used it since 1994. On 80 meters it does a pretty job, but on 160 it's a 
pity. I have also tried with elevated counterpoises, adding more of them 
but nothing changed. Usually one can be heard from a DX station, but sadly 
not copy his reply for noise with a vertical setup, but here as I use 3 
long beverages I copy DX and a lot of stations breaking pile up very 
well,but making my Voyager copied from a DX spedition is very frustating.
The reflector "TOWERTALK" some months ago suggested me a L-inverted setup, 
with elevated radials, sure cheaper and more efficient than my "tall dummy 
load". I mean you could retrieve those replies on archives looking for "GAP 
VOYAGER".  (de W4ZV...I found it here but see no replies on Towertalk:)
http://www.contesting.com/_towertalk/199912/0362.html

Hope this helps.

Ciao Sante IK0HBN

ps. BTW with Voyager I worked 106 countries including VK0IR, XZ0A and 
others cookies, but I guess I had a great luck and sure their ears were 
very good to copy me...-))



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