Topband: 1/8 wave vertical
Dennis OConnor
ad4hk2004 at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 28 08:53:43 EST 2007
1dB can be significant at times, but:
An extra dB of transmit on 160 at my station will be somewheres North of five grand...
For improved receive I just destroyed a number of weekends since September running 3000 feet of RG6 and pulling 2400 feet of various wires through the woods, digging post holes, and winding transformers, etc... Any further dB on receive will be hard to come bye.... I am mulling over a parallel/endfire parasitic array pointed to JA land, though... Who knows, it could happen... The little guy inside my head keeps thinking up antenna ideas when I am trying to sleep///
However, for the weak guys who were calling me the other night it could be as easy as a few dollars of aluminum fence wire and couple hours of grunt labor on their radial system... Or sweet talking the neighbors into letting them pull the end of a Tee up into their tree, etc...
Why should I be the one making ALL the effort?
denny / k8do
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