[TowerTalk] Help with 80 meter temp antenna

[K7LXC at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/19/2006 12:26:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
towertalk-request at contesting.com writes:

>  A beam made from inverted vees won't work very well at low  height. 
However if you can keep the ends at about 50 ft above ground it  should 
do pretty good.  It will be a killer for stateside, but even  for DX a 2 
element version should outperform a single vertical in one  direction. 
This antenna takes up a LOT of  space.



N7ML in Montana had two  195' rotating towers and he put a catenary between 
them. The towers were inline  to EU and he put a 6 element 75M wire beam 
(inverted vees) on it. I listened to  SP7GIQ one morning during the ARRL DX CW tests 
and he was S8-9 - wow. Mike also  had a 2 element bobtail that only heard 
noise. It was pretty impressive. Highly  recommended if you can do it!
 
Cheers,
Steve    K7LXC