[TowerTalk] Elevated GP vs. Vertical Antennas

[Jim Reid]

At 04:24 PM 3/14/98 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-03-05 16:42:48 EST, you write:
>
><< On the Garden Island of Kauai and putting up a complete 
> suite of Gladiators!
>  >>
>Will you be known as "the ham from Glad"?

>Denny

Probably the  non-wise one!

Hi Denny,  I am sitting here sort of pooped out!  My son and I got
one of the Glads up this morning,  the TL160,  what a beast.  Our
problem is our  QTH,  would be easy on flat land with no trees or
large bushes around.  But here we are in a "jungle" of tangled
vines,  low trees,  tall trees,  etc. and trying to get this wiggly
thing up,  then guyed,  and then four top hat wires strung
somewhere.  It is up,  have no idea where it is going to resonate,
probably no where near the 160 band now!!.  The top hat wires
need to be tied down much futher out.

But too tired now to fool with it more today.  Just not in too good
a shape,  in my 7th decade to be crawling around on a hillside, then
stumbling through vines and brambles!!

Wonder now about the wisdom of this entire,  what is clearly
going to be  a much bigger project than I had imagined!

Oh well,  there is no deadline approaching.

73,  Jim,  KH7M


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