[TowerTalk] 80 Meter yagi - Height recommendation

[noddie]

Rick, I would go as high as you can with beam and put an inverted V up for
local.  I find the IV works great for me for the US continent and Hawaii.

Mike

Rick,

Thanks to you and many others for the feedback.  I am going with 140 feet.
This should be a good compromise between domestic and DX operation.  I also
have an 80M vertical that works quite well but without the gain desired for
contests and DX.

73 Keith NM5G

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Karlquist [mailto:richard at karlquist.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:26 PM
To: M. Kent Miller
Cc: kdutson at sbcglobal.net; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 80 Meter yagi - Height recommendation

M. Kent Miller wrote:
> Keith,
>
> My 2 element 80 meter yagi is 130 feet up. It works very well at 
> distances over 2500 miles, but not as effectively as my wire antennas for
" local "
> ( inside USA ) use.
>
> My guess is that if it were lower, it would be more useable for short 
> distances, but I didn' t install it to work locals, and I don' t 
> imagine you have that in mind either, so I would say go as high as you
can.
>
> 73,
> Kent - K4MK

I have A/B'ed 80 meter dipoles at 115 feet high vs 60 feet high.
The high one is ~10 dB better on DX and the low one is ~10 dB better on
locals (up to 150 miles or so).  A really low one (at 30 ft) was also A/B'ed
with the 60 footer and found to be several dB better on locals than the 60
footer.

Rick N6RK

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