[TowerTalk] Vertical?

[Steve Hurst]

Hi Bob and Tower gang,

	I've used a Hy-Gain 18AVT for years ground mounted with great success. No
radials , just an 8 foot G.R ( ground rod ) . Although not the most
efficient antenna I'm sure, but it does work. Right now it is ground
mounted without the G.R. , it is kind of  a temporary ( permant ? ) antenna
while I put up my tower and beam. I am planning on putting radials under it
one of these days. What about a chicken wire grid type of screen underneath
? Would be better than wire ? Take care all and enjoy the weekend.....


73,
Steve Hurst
KA7NOC  ( southern Idaho ) 
http://www.magiclink.com/web/shurst
shurst@magiclink.com

" I'm cooler than you are. Why don't you fix your little problem and light
this candle ?"
Alan B. Shepard

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> From: Bob Wanderer <aa0cy@nwrain.com>
> To: towertalk@contesting.com; 'UpTheTower@aol.com'
> Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Vertical?
> Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 9:18 PM
> 
> 
> GAP Titan gets my vote (I have one). Been using GAPs since 1990
> and satisfied. Actually a conventional 1/4-wave trapped vertical
> such as the 14AVQ with an eight foot ground rod works very well.
> Back in the mid-80's a friend and I livewd about 2 miles apart in
> similar topographical conditions. We both ran TS830S and 14AVQs
> except that his was ground mounted and had one or two four foot ground
> rods in fairly conductive and homogenous soil and mine was roof mounted
> (up about 20 or so ft) with six radials per band in a spoke pattern. We 
> both contacted the same station in Texas on (I think) 40m SSB. My friend
> was down "only" one "S" unit. On the meter but the Texan said we were
> equally strong and loud in his headphones.
> 73, Bob AA0CY
> 
> 
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> From:  UpTheTower@aol.com[SMTP:UpTheTower@aol.com]
> Sent:  Thursday, June 11, 1998 8:27 AM
> To:  towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject:  [TowerTalk] Vertical?
> 
> 
> Greetings, TowerTalkians --
> 
>      I've got a local ham who can only install an HF vertical in a kind
of
> restricted spot. He can only put a couple of radials out but they'll have
to
> be bent, shortened, etc. in order to get them in so he's looking at the
'no
> radials required' vertical antennas. He's looking at the Gap Titan,
Hy-Gain
> DX-77 and Cushcraft R-7000. If you had to make this decision, which one
would
> you buy and install? All comments welcomed. Tnx.
> 
> Cheers,  Steve  K7LXC
> 
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