[TowerTalk] Tower and antenna decisions

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

I briefly looked at log periodics and one thing
that hasn't been discussed here is the mediocre
SWR of LPDA's.  You're pretty much going to have
to use a tuner, and you also have increased feedline
loss.  Might work for some users, but I'm sticking
with my SteppIR antennas (3 of them so far).

An LPDA would however, make a good broadband receive
antenna for a skimmer, if you want to optimize
one direction.

Rick N6RK