[Towertalk] 40 meter antennas

[n4kg@juno.com]

N4VB had a Mosley 3L40 on a 50 ft pole overlooking a
slope to the East that dropped 30 ft. The antenna played
very well and had a good pattern (which I measured
many years ago).

Tom N4KG

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002  JBaumgarte@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 4/7/2002 10:35:35 AM Central Daylight Time, 
> K7LXC@aol.com 
> writes:
> 
> 
> > >  Mosley        1 vote
> > >  
> >     Har har - good one. (Just a generic Mosley comment.) 
> > 
> 
> Steve,
> 
> I wonder if you've actually tried one of these (Mosely 2 el 40)?  I 
> share 
> your opinion of most of the other Mosely antennas, but want to share 
> my 
> results with this rather unusual antenna.  I acquired one by 
> accident with a 
> bunch of used Rohn 55 in a package deal.  The antenna was new.  
> Although this 
> antenna has been a mechanical nightmare, the performance has truly 
> been 
> outstanding.  Once I converted to a F12 mast/boom HD clamp (the 
> antenna fell 
> off the mast), and improved the mast to element clamps (they rotated 
> to 
> vertical twice), it now is fine.   I have it at 125' at the top of a 
> stack of 
> lower F12 antennas, and I feel as strong with this antenna on 40 as 
> anything 
> else I have (C31XR & 180C for 80).  It does things like allowing us 
> to run to 
> EU before the sun sets (from northern MN) and one of my ops who has 
> run a 
> station with a 150' high Telerex 3, says he does at least as good 
> here.  It's 
> a bit of a big antenna for a "shorty-40" and heavy, but it is one 
> Mosely I 
> don't think you can bash. (except mechanically! :-)  )
> 
> Thanks for your efforts in keeping "towertalk" so usefull and 
> interesting.
> 
> John, N0IJ
> Duluth, MN
> 

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