Topband: Inverted L improvement question

[Wes Stewart]

I was an early participant in the SAL yahoo group and introduced Dan, AC6LA, to 
the group.  He has provided a lot of modeling tools.

That said, I lost interest after feeling that the design was too complicated, 
not well understood and suffered from a dizzying number of changes.  I could be 
totally wrong about this, but that was my assessment some time ago and frankly I 
haven't kept up.

Wes  N7WS



On 12/27/2018 4:15 PM, Arthur Delibert wrote:
> You may also want to check out the SAL-12, -20 or -30 antennas from Array 
> Solutions.  My yard is pretty small, but I was able to put up a SAL-12, and I 
> love it.  (I do mostly 49-, 60- and 90-meter SWBC DX.)  I can switch the 
> antenna to any one of 8 different directions, and I'm often surprised to find 
> that the DX is coming from a direction different from what I would expect.  
> Often there's a very pronounced peak in the signal when the antenna is pointed 
> in the right direction, and I really would not have had any copy if I couldn't 
> point in that direction.
>
> The SAL-12 isn't especially good on 160, but is good from 3 MHz and higher.  
> The SAL-20 and -30 are reportedly very good on 160.  If I recall right, the 
> SAL-20 is directional up to 20 meters; the SAL-30 is good up to 40 meters.  
> Check the Array Solutions website to confirm.
>
> These aren't as cheap as putting up your own pennant, but above 3 MHz, the 
> SAL-12 aimed NE almost always outperforms my pennant pointed in the same 
> direction.
>
> Regards,
> Art Delibert, KB3FJO
>
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