[TowerTalk] Slopers from tower

UpTheTower@aol.com UpTheTower@aol.com
Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:29:09 EST


In a message dated 1/4/02 7:11:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
owner-towertalk@contesting.com writes:

> Another example:
>  
>  K4VX/0 used 1/4 wave slopers for 160 meters fed about 10 feet below his 3
>  element full sized 40 meter yagi.  The yagi was at 130'.  
>  
>  Obviously not 1/4 wave seperation between the feed point and the top load. 
 
>  But plenty of tower top load to act as a good counterpoise.  Which is the
>  important thing.  Not the seperation between the top load and the
>  feedpoint.
>  
>  73
>  
>  

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