[TowerTalk] vertical antenna advice needed

[PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia]

Hi folks, thank you for your information on this topic!

73,

Felipe

Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:06 AM, PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia <
felipeceglia2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I'd like to hear your opinions about this topic.
>
> I am looking for an antenna (or more than one) for 10/15/20m that has the
> following characteristics:
>
> - vertical polarization
> - smallest possible horizontal far field lobe
> - "good" forward gain (at least comparing to a single element vertical)
> - greatest possible front to back ratio
>
> I was thinking about using:
>
> - a tribander tilted 90 degrees
>
> - 2 element end phased array of:
>    - vertical dipoles
>    - sitting on the ground verticals (with or without radials?)
>    - multiband verticals (using W9AD phasing line to switch between bands)
>    - 5/8th wave verticals (at least for 10m, it would be easy to convert
> CB antennas)
>
> - a 4 square
>
>
> These antennas would be used for RX only.
>
> Any suggestions, anecdotal comments, field experiments?
>
> 73 and thank for your time,
>
> Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB
>
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> PR1T team member /// Rio DX Group member /// Araucaria DX Group member
> http://dxwatch.com /// http://reversebeacon.net /// http://riodxgroup.com
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