[TowerTalk] 80 meter antenna

[Craig Clark]

"I'll go along with Mark, and add a warning.

If you hang an 80M Inverted Veee dipole or sloper from the
tower it'll screw up the gamma feed you have for sure. "


Two things:

I make coax assemblies every day. I use and highly recommend 
Solder-it's IRODA Solder pro 120. They run about $80 and you can get 
a number of different tips.

Secondly, I don't often disagree with Tom, but I did not experience a 
problem with my 160 shunt fed vertical when I hung an 80 meter sloping dipole.

There was no change in the tuning and I did not "see" a difference in 
performance.

That said, I have no scientific data to back my claim up.

>My suggestion is to add a DPDT switch and a second tuning network to 
>the shunt feed. At 70' with top loading, that would make a very nice 
>80 meter radiator.

But wadda I know?








73, Craig Clark, K1QX

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