[TowerTalk] HF2V Elevated or On Ground

[GARY HUBER]

Mike, I forgot to say the top loading can give your HF-2V a low VSWR across 
the entire 40 M band or across the entire phone or CW portion.... great for 
contests!

73 ES DX,
Gary -- AB9M

-----Original Message----- 
From: Michael Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:25 PM
To: Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA
Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] HF2V Elevated or On Ground

I have an HF-2V ground mounted with 32 - 40 foot radials under it.  When I
went from 16 to 32 radials, 80 became significantly more touchy to tune.
That said, it works very well on 40 and 80 into EU.

This weekend I plan to add 4 -12 foot wires for a top hat for 80.
According to Bencher, it will improve performance on 80 as well as a
little more bandwidth.  Anyone tried this?

Thanks

Mike - KI8R


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA <
ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

>
>
> James,
>
>
>
> I recently installed an HF9V at around 8' AGL.  I use 2 elevated
> "ground"(counterpoise) radials per band, sloping from 8' down to about 5'
> AGL.
>
> I find it works VERY well on 40m and up and adequate on 80m.
>
> Over the past month, I've compared it to a host of other wire antennas at
> similar heights and always found the Butternut to be as good or better
>
> than anything else in the yard here.  I believe the raised radials have
> less
> loss, but it was twitchy to tune.  An HF2V ought to be a cake-walk to 
> tune.
>
>
>
> It's just my opinion that using only a few ground radials is lossy and
> that's why everyone preaches ground mounting it. (a lot easier to tune w/
> better/wide 2:1 SWR curves) (I use the term "better", but I don't really
> mean better, but it is better for the match, but I think it's like dumping
> power into the ground to heat worms.)
>
>
>
> So far I have around 2500 Q's with it, contesting every weekend and I am
> sure it works well , raised up like it is.
>
>
>
> p.s.- subscribe to the Yahoo group for Butternut antennas and then check
> the
> files section for "VE9AA" or "AD5X".a couple good ideas
>
> how to get the whole 80m band out of the antenna.
>
>
>
> YMMV,
>
>
>
> 73 Mike VE9AA, NB
>
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