[TowerTalk] HY-GAIN 18HT HIGH TOWER & CTSVR

[Tom Osborne]

Hi Jim.

First a little about the antennas here. On 80 I have a dipole up about 80 
feet in a tree, On 40, phased verticals and on 160 an inverted L in a 
tree about 70 feet vertical and rest horizontal to another tree.
A friend of mine here in town bought the CTSVR and installed it before 
the CQWW DX test.  We were doing some comparisons by calling the same 
stations, and I could beat him out, handily, everytime we called someone. 
He had to call and call and usually I could work the station on 2 or 3 
calls on 160, 80 and 40. He runs 1500 watts to a Ten-Tec Titan and I run 
about 500 watts on 40 and 80 with a FL-2100B, and barefoot on 160 about 
100 watts. I wasn't very impressed with the CTSVR at all. It seems like 
alot of money for the performance you get out of it. On the other hand, 
used to have a friend in Lakeview OR, KS7G, and he had a hy-tower on 80 
and it was a killer antenna for DX. He was right up there with the big 
boys. I think if I had to go to a single antenna for low bands, it would 
be the Hy-Tower. 73 and GL
Tom W7WHY

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