[TowerTalk] Its summer and antennas are on my mind

[Gene Smar]

Bill:


From: Bill Parry <BPARRY at RGV.RR.COM>
Date: 2007/06/30 Sat AM 08:28:11 CDT
To: TOWERTALK at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Its summer and antennas are on my mind

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I was wondering if maybe gamma matching the tower with multiple radials
would provide a significant improvement on 160M? 
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The saying is very true on Topband:  You can never have enough antennas.  I would certainly advise you to construct a shunt feed for your new tower on 160M and keep it in your quivver along with the inv V.  

     When I had my inv L and my new shunt-fed Trylon operating as A/B on 160M, I saw a 5-10 dB (S-meter measurement) difference on RX between the two favoring the shunt feed.  Folks also told me that there was a similar 5-10 dB improvement when I went to the shunt feed.  

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F