Topband: Are stacked verticals feasible?

Carl km1h at jeremy.mv.com
Thu Sep 5 09:17:03 EDT 2013


Assuming that sufficient tower height was available, guy wires are insulated 
or broken up into short non-resonant sections. Tower face is 12 or 18".

Start at 1/4 wave up with a 1/4 wave ground plane with radials sloping at 
about 45 degrees. The vertical wire is 6-12' away from the tower face.

Then a 1/4 wave (or 1/8) up install a duplicate.

What does EZNEC say about this?

With the different spacings?

Effect of starting lower and how low before there are ground related 
problems?

Phasing with coax or a LC network?

Switching in a delay line to tilt the lobe up a bit?

Curiosity got the cat!

Carl
KM1H






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