[TowerTalk] Fw: Question on 80M 4-square amongst trees

[J.P. Kleinhaus]

Hi Rich:

I used essentially set-up in the 90's from a thickly wooded location (before
I got involved with the group out on Long Island) and it worked like
gangbusters.  The best illustration of it is the 1995 CQWW SSB results where
I pretty much decimated the competition on 80 phone.  The antenna was far
superior to any high dipole we put up most of the time.  I didn't have any
other 4-square to compare it to at the time so I can't say whether it
performed equally to one that would have been out in the clear and made of
free-standing towers etc. but I will tell you that you are not wasting your
time.

J.P. W2XX/7


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RICHARD BOYD" <ke3q at msn.com>
To: "towertalk reflector" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 5:57 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Fw: Question on 80M 4-square amongst trees



----- Original Message ----- 
From: RICHARD BOYD
To: towertalk reflector
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: Question on 80M 4-square amongst trees


Any opinions or actual experience on the performance of an 80M four-square
in trees?

Last year I hung a single 80M vertical, 1/4 wavelength, elevated feedpoint,
from a 90' (estimated) white oak tree and it
worked very well.  I have now cleared an area on the other side of the tree
and could pretty easily add a vertical on
that side that would be/could be identical to the first one, and with a
little effort I could probably make it four verticals
with the correct spacing, all four supported by the same tree, with the tree
in the middle.

How do you think this will do compared to a four-square made of aluminum
tubing (or channel, which I have some of) out
in the middle of a field?

73 - Rich, KE3Q
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