[TowerTalk] lp V stepIR

[Steve, W3AHL]

Construction details for an 80-40m wire LPDA are in the ARRL Antenna 
Handbook, 20th Edition.  It could easily be extended to higher bands.

You need a large family to rotate it and a large field if you're going for 
any height....

Steve, W3AHL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Browne" <stuartpbrowne at gmail.com>
To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] lp V stepIR


> Has anyone built an inverted LPDA?  Not practical unless you have the land
> and towers to support it but looks cheap to build and rugged. If you had 
> the
> height it looks practical for 7-30 mhz.
>
> http://plasma.newcastle.edu.au/plasma/research/tiger/venice/Inv_V_antenna_paper.pdf
>
> Stu,
> WH6H
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Jan Erik Holm <sm2ekm at telia.com> wrote:
>
>> Gene Fuller wrote:
>> > booms)  on a 100 foot tower with tipped booms giving something like
>> halfwave
>> > stacking for 10-20 meters would be an absolute killer I think W1KW had
>> > something .like that back in the 90's, but not quite that long on the
>> booms.
>> >
>> W1KW is wrong.  It was K1KW that had the LP stacks.
>>
>> / SM2EKM
>>
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