[TowerTalk] 160-m Inverted L or Sloper?

[Gary.Stone@med.va.gov]

I have used a 20 meter half-wave sloper and found it to be very much like a
2 element beam.  I admit my experience was limited but very good.  I would
like to try something like that now for 160 meters but my tower is only 80
feet high.  I might try it anyway. 

Gary, N5PHT


-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Doug Renwick
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 9:22 AM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 160-m Inverted L or Sloper?

No, the only real answer is to try a half sloper (Tom sarcastically
calls them sloppers) yourself.  You forget that a lot of the worlds
inventions, discoveries were/are made by accident.

I have two half slopers feed off the same tower, one sloping east and
the other west.  One of the advantages they have over a vertical is
they have directivity in the direction of the slope.  Fact!  Another
advantage is that you do not need another tower.  Another advantage
is they are relatively inexpensive compared to a vertical.

Please share with us your religious experience with sloppers.  Or is
this just a subjective statement mascara ding as objective?

Doug/VA5DX

You can ask all the question in the world about a slopper
and the only real answer is to use the Edisonian method. If
you try enough fibers in random filament tests, eventually
you might stumble on a light bulb. Sloppers are a religious
experience.

73 Tom




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