[TowerTalk] Re: [CQ-Contest] Sweepstakes Antennas: 80/75 Meters

[Patrick Croft]

Jeff,
Look at a two element beam pointing UP.  You can install a inverted vee
reflector element under your present vee and get excellent high angles with
gain into the 500-600 mile region you seek.

Bests

Patrick


At 09:20 PM 8/20/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>After an absence of several years, I'm rebuilding my antenna system with
>an eye towards ARRL Sweepstakes. Today I'm considering how to improve my
>80/75 meter coverage domestically. Located in Central Ohio, I'm interested
>in saturating a 500-mile circle to cover the population centers, and that
>means I want to maximize my high-angle lobes.
>
>I have available one 70-foot tower, and some fairly tall (up to 70-80
>feet) trees, ranging from 50 to 150 feet away. I currently have up an
>inverted-V broadside E-W with the peak at 70 feet and fed with half-inch
>hardline. 
>
>I'm considering a delta loop, broadside E-W, bottom corner fed, supplemented
>by an inverted-V broadside N-S. 
>
>Any better ideas? Delta- or diamond-loop oriented horizontally 50-60 feet
>up? 
>
>Jeff Maass       (jmaass@freenet.columbus.oh.us)      Amateur Radio K8ND
>      USPSA/IPSC # L-1192   NROI/CRO          NW of Columbus Ohio
>      25000 Members in 2000!
>
>
>
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