[Towertalk] 6 Meter Antenna

[Eddy Avila]

Tom, if I had these choices I would put one at the 60' mark and feed it with 
low-loss hardline which while really expensive new and be found at swapmeets 
a lot cheaper! I'd put a second yagi at the 25' mark as well feeding this 
with low-loss coax. My experience is that dx signals on 6 meters come in at 
really different angles depending upon the type of refraction going 
on....with antennas at really different heights you would find one day the 
60-footer hearing stuff the 25-footer can't hear, then the next time the 
25-foot high antenna kicking butt and you'd swear the beam at 60' fell off 
the tower!!! HI....

Of course, this is the best of all possible worlds and not available for me 
so I'd go with a beam as high as possible and feed it with the best-quality 
coax you can afford.

GL es 73...ed

>From: "Tom Branch" <tom@k4nr.org>
>Greetings,
>
>I'm adding a 6 meter antenna to my farm to play around on 6.  I have two
>options: 60 feet in the air on my tower with 200 feet of coax, or at 25 
>feet
>with 40 feet of coax.  The tower mount is clear in all directions--the 
>lower
>height is not. I'm guessing the loss on the coax far outweighs the height
>advantage.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>73 de Tom
>
>tom@k4nr.org
>http://www.k4nr.org


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