Fw: Re: [TowerTalk] hardwired 20M stack

Fred Hopengarten k1vr@juno.com
Sun, 1 Oct 2000 20:28:26 -0700


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From: KI7WX@aol.com <KI7WX@aol.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sunday, October 01, 2000 11:06 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] hardwired 20M stack

>-  Just how often do you find the switching capacity to be useful?  From
the
>West coast there were only a few times I found any single antenna to be
>better than the stack (mostly on 10M, very rarely on 15M) and from
across
>town at AA4NC running stacked 204BAs on 20M I really can't recall
anytime
>when one was better than both.  Curious if that mirrors the experience
of
>others running monoband stacks.
>
>Mark
>KI7WX/4

K1VR:  From the East Coast, my top antenna at 97' is always better to JA
(a long, low angle path), than 97' plus 61'. To EU, I leave them both in
at all times, except for snowstorms and other high atmospheric noise
times.
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