[TowerTalk] Another Cage Question

[john at kk9a.com]

If you are trying to increase the bandwidth , I think that the cage is more 
effective at the end of the conductor or the horizontal portion of your 
inverted L.  You really don't need a smart tuner for an inverted L.  If you 
are trying to increase gain,  I am sure that you wont see any improvement 
changing it to a cage.

John KK9A



To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Another Cage Question
From: n9lah
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 17:23:06 +0000 (UTC)

At the risk of fire up the cage machine again one related question. What 
will
changing the 55 foot vertical section of my inverted "L" to a 6 wire cage 
from
a single wire do? It is 55 feet tall supported 4-5 feet from my tower. The
horizontal section is probably 70 feet  long and slopes down to about 20 
feet
and the antenna is tuned with an SGC 237 tuner at the feed point.



I guess my question really is if it would really help much for the work
involved.



Phil

N9LAH