[TowerTalk] Springs for erecting loops nd dipoles

Al Williams alwilliams at olywa.net
Tue Jan 27 12:29:04 EST 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Elliott" <wultabat at sympatico.ca>
> 
> 6. BTW, this Vee beam is a penniless DXer's delight... loud, inexpensive 
> and easy to maintain. When looking down the hill toward Africa and South 
> America, it models >15 dBi (think 5-el yagi) below 5 degrees elevation. 
> The bad news is: it's an absolute pig to rotate, 'speshially on a stormy 
> winter's night... hi! But I love it.

Let's see; at ~$40,000 for a small city lot, the Vee beam using perhaps
15 lots (?), that is about $600,000--lots of pennies!!!!!!!!!!!!!

k7puc


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