[TowerTalk] 4sqr

[Tim Duffy]

Also, take a look at the 4 wire "Lazy V" parasitic antenna that was published in
QST several years ago by me, K3LC and WA3FET.

It is a very good directional 160 antenna and would work very well on one mode
of 80 meters.

73,
Tim K3LR


Larry Lindblom wrote:

> My compromise 4 square on 160 is 4 1/4 wave slopers with elevated radials.
> It models poorly but still kicks a lot of tail on 160.  For example, in 99
> and 00 I made the top 10 box USA on SSB in the CQ 160 Test (brag) with it.
> It models poorly but beats a lot of even poorer antennas.  I guess Albert
> was correct when he said all things are relative.  Or as we say in my trade
> "get as close as you can to what you want to get" and this was as close as I
> could get to what I really wanted and could afford.
>
> 73
>
> W0ETC
>
> Steve wrote:
>
> > FYI The last sentence should have read slopers not slopes and the K8UR
> > 4sqr is modeled with the bottom half of the vertical dipole brought back
> > to the tower at 60ft and the top at 150ft.
> >
> > BTW I modeled a 4sqr using slopes and it came up as a terrible antenna
> > with poor pattern and gain. Hope this helps.
> >
> > 73 Steve VE3TU
> >
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