[TowerTalk] Slopers, half slopers, (using the tower)

[Bill Coleman]

On Sep 25, 2004, at 8:57 PM, Tower (K8RI) wrote:

> Any one have experience with "half slopers"? (half of a half wave with 
> the tower serving as the other side)

I have a half-sloper for 40m coming off my 15m tower at the 12m level.

Performance was OK. It improved a lot when I when from 4 to 13 60 foot 
radials around the tower base for the 80m shunt feed.

Seems to me a lot of the half-sloper is vertically polarized.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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