[TowerTalk] BIG array

[Mike Fatchett]

I would hope that they could split of specific antennas for various
purposes.  4 over 4 over 4 on 20 and 4 over 4 over 4 on 15 would be pretty
nice!  Being that they are SteppIR's they can be anything from 6 to 20
meters.  One man's junk is another man's treasure.  

I applaud those that try something new and wild.  This array, the 6 element
40 that was criticized here which is now on the air.  Congrats to them!

What gets me is why there is so much negativity and defeatists in this hobby
that was is so heavily based around experimentation.

Mike W0MU 

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From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Turner
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:35 AM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] BIG array

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:30:51 EST, K7LXC at aol.com wrote:


>   I don't know if it's been mentioned before but I  was at the SteppIR 
>factory yesterday and saw an engineering drawing and photos  of the K9LTN
array.
>It's a 270' rotating tower with an "H" frame on it with 4  over 4 over 
>3 element SteppIRs on EACH side of the H. The antennas have azimuth  
>AND elevation rotation. I heard that he was able to bounce HF signals off
the  moon ala W0UN.
>It is a truly amazing installation. Apparently they used Rohn 55  and 
>45 for the vertical parts of the H. The vertical parts of the H are 100  
>feet! It has over 21 dBi of freespace gain.

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Other than getting into the Guinness Book of World Records, one has to
wonder why anyone would bother with such a project. It's the old story of
the more gain you have, the narrower the beamwidth. This guy is probably
going to miss more DX than he hears. 

But it's an interesting story, no doubt about that.

Bill, W6WRT
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