[TowerTalk] 80 4-square inside a 160 4-square? Pros and Cons please!

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Fri Jun 11 18:35:43 EDT 2004


> I think you would need another trap halfway up, and in
that
> case you want to float the 160 element on 80, not ground
it.  This is like
> with guy wires:  < 1/3 wl if floating, < 1/6 wl if
grounded.

When you have limited space, you live with what you can
reasonably do. I think grounding it would be OK. I'd sure
try it and see.

Multiple 80m traps is just too complex. If it came down to
that, I'd do something else.

73 Tom




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