[TowerTalk] trying to ID an antenna design I saw but didn't bookmark

[n8de at thepoint.net]

Sounds like the K9AY antenna.
Don
N8DE


Quoting jim feldman <mtnredhed at gmail.com>:

> Please bear with me on this one.  I saw an antenna design about 6 months
> ago, but didn't bookmark it because I was searching for something else.
> Hopefully I can describe it well enough that someone will be able to id it
> for me.
>
> The design was based on a single mast, maybe 35ft high.  Think inverted V,
> but with the ends pulled in near the mast so that the profile almost
> resembles an outline of a Christmas Tree.  I believe that there were two
> V's, 90 degrees from each other, so that they followed the 4 guy ropes
> down.  They were fed at the bottom with a balun(s), and I believe they had
> some resistive element in the loop.  Given the height, I suspect the design
> was for NVIS and that's my intended use.  I think one was tuned for 75 and
> the other for 40 but that's an assumption on my part.
>
> I realize this isn't very "tower" oriented, but I'm betting on the antenna
> guru's having seen this.
>
> Thanks for your patience
> jim
> w6jmf
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