[TowerTalk] Single Tower, All Band Solution ?

[Gene Fuller]

Unless you're seriously shooting for the top of the pile, hard to beat an 
LP. One rotator, one feedline, no traps. Put your money into making it high 
instead of making it big. Keep the load down and put a 40 m dipole ten feet 
above it. Yes, you do have some compromises in gain and F/B with an LP, but 
if you want to include the WARC bands, by the time you try to cram five to 
seven bands on one boom you'll be stuck with a bunch of compromises, more 
aluminum, probably traps, etc...... I love my 7-60 MHz LP. The only thing 
that might burn out or get filled with water or bugs is the balun. I 
designed mine for 200 ohms and ran some 200  ohm "open wire" (made of 1/4" 
cu tubing) from the feedpoint back to the mast/balun to keep it within 
reach. In use for 10 years with no problems.
Gene / W2LU

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <brahmangou at aol.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Single Tower, All Band Solution ?


> You need to take a look at the Tennadyne T-8 log periodic. I have 8 towers
> and have run most every antenna design at one time or another and it is 
> one
> of  my favorites. 5 bands, cw to ssb (try that with a trapped antenna),
> instant band  switching, no matching network, light and really low cost.
> 73,
> AB5GU
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