Topband: Vertical dipoles in the real world

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In the early 60's I had a full size 40M vertical on top of a 70' pine tree 
with a bunch ....maybe 8-10...of radials tossed over the branches and 
weighted with lead fishing sinkers.
It was a superb DX antenna compared to a dipole about 40' high.

Its only fault is that it heard so well it turned the Drake 2B's front end 
to mush. Thats when I bought a used 75A4 and rebuilt it at work to be near 
bullet proof and still use it when the going gets tough on 160 CW.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 2:38 AM
Subject: Re: Topband: Vertical dipoles in the real world


> On 9/20/2012 2:55 PM, wa3mej at comcast.net wrote:
>> Does anyone have any real world experience with these dipoles?
>
> Not on Topband, but I rigged a vertical dipole for 40M in one of my tall 
> redwoods with the top insulator up about 100 ft.  It worked, but not very 
> well, not nearly as well as the horizontal dipoles at the same height.
>
> If I had ONLY a single skyhook for an antenna that needed to work ABOVE 
> 160, I would use it to hang either a traditional vertical over radials, or 
> an inverted Vee. On 160, it would definitely be a vertical over radials.
>
> BTW -- a half wave dipole for 160M is about 260 ft.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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