Topband: FW: 9 circle array

[john]

When I  had my 9 element array going in the early 2000's, I did a receive only version with 20 foot verticals. It worked great and compared favorably with the full size antenna. It is still in place at K9RO in Wisconsin. All elements are active. It is patterned after the W0UN design in ON4UN"s book. My array is also in the book. I had every imaginable beverage, and the array was as good or better than the best of them 95% of the time. Most of the 5% were times of high angle, when things are very unpredictable, often favoring  a low dipole. The winner was diversity with one channel array and one channel switchable beverage.
 
John K9DX
 
 

 
> From: jkaufmann at alum.mit.edu
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 07:23:42 -0500
> Subject: Re: Topband: 9 circle array
> 
> In my earlier post, I neglected to mention the NCJ article was published in
> 2011.
> 
> 73, John W1FV
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of John
> Kaufmann
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 8:34 PM
> To: 'Glenn Biggerstaff'; topband at contesting.com
> Cc: Bruce Herrick
> Subject: Re: Topband: 9 circle array
> 
> Hello TopBanders,
> 
> I am the author of the original NCJ article, published in September/October
> and November/December issues, which is the basis for the YCCC/DX Engineering
> RX array.  
> 
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