[TowerTalk] High Antenna

[Gerry Hull]

Hi Rick,

No direct comment yet, but will have some feedback after CQWW SSB.  I'm
going to be at CI9DH in New Brunswick, where we just put up a 7el 10 on
a 48' boom at 100'.  We are also going to have 5 el. at 75' and 5 el. at
30 ft.  We certainly feel the 100' height is too high for F2 except for
Asia and Pac, but it should be awesome for backscatter and tropo into
the U.S.  Will post how it worked after the contest.

-Gerry, W1VE/VE1RM



At [Tue, 7 Oct 1997 07:04:16 -0400] Rick Dougherty NQ4I <NQ4I@compuserve.com>
wrote:

> Bill Fisher and I have been bantering back and forth on a topic that I feel
> is now worth bringing to the reflector...I just recently installed a 6 el
> 10m yagi on a 28 foot boom ( former klm 610) which had been recently yagi
> optimized by W4EA...with this antenna at the 145 foot level on my tower it
> is 1-2 s units down from my other 2 antennas on 10m ,a 7 el on a 42 ft boom
> at 45 feet, and a 8 el on a 48 ft boom at 55 ft...I think on the paths that
> I have tested that the 6 el is just too high...Bill thinks that something
> else is wrong....I have tested the new 6 el on the LU-PY path in the day
> tim, and the VK-ZL path at night..I realize that this is by no means a
> valid test, but I think that N4KG would certainly agree with me that this
> thing is too high...
> 
> Any other ideas or comments??
> 
> The new 10 m 6 has some nice characteristics though...it is extremely
> quiet, ground wave and back scatter contacts are much better...to name a
> few...
> 
> comments please...de Rick
> 
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