[TowerTalk] Fwd: Hustler 6-BTV installation

[Kelly Taylor]

The 43-foot vertical: better antennas through marketing...


On 4/9/14 8:17 AM, "john at kk9a.com" <john at kk9a.com> wrote:

> On many bands the 43' vertical would work better if used as a center
> support for an inverted V.
> 
> John KK9A
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> To:  Towertalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject:  Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Hustler 6-BTV installation
> From:  Tom Osborne <w7why at frontier.com>
> Date:  Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:43:37 -0700
> 
> On 4/8/2014 4:25 AM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> I just read the Joel Hallas, W1ZR article - "The 43 foot vertical monopole
> - What's the magic?".  It was very interesting!  The coax losses are worse
> than I imagined, up to 8dB though 100 feet of RG-213, and as my model
> showed the radiation is very high above 20m.  Certainly a relay to
> electrically shorten the antenna would help 15m and 10m.
> 
> John KK9A
> 
> 
> I always wondered why someone would pay $400- $500 for a '43 foot
> vertical' when you can hang about $1.50 worth of wire in a tree and do the
> same thing.
> 
> We had one of those for FD and it was not a very good antenna.  73
> Tom W7WHY
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