[TowerTalk] trylon 72 foot tower

[Jim Brown]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:22:45 -0700, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:

>Getting slopers to work well is almost like finding True North.

For a short time, I ran a sloping dipole for 40, 80, and 160 that 
was suspended from a massive 150 ft AT&T microwave tower on a 3,000 
ft mountaintop near Sacramento. It played REALLY well. During a 160M 
contest, I could work anything I could hear with 100 watts, and I 
could hear really well. I suspect that the QTH and the significant 
reflection provided by the tower (I'd guess 3dB or so of additional 
gain in the favored direction) had a lot to do with it. 

73,

Jim K9YC