[TowerTalk] A couple of 18HT questions

[Patrick Greenlee]

Sorry, I don't get it.  If it is a srewdriver thingy then I like the 
inverted "L" better with no moving parts and automatic band switching, 
no need to fiddle with tuning.

...but, I am open to something new especially if I can see some 
advantage.  Drop the other shoe.  Give some details about what you refer 
to please.

Patrick  NJ5G


On 12/17/2014 5:10 PM, WW3S wrote:
> you mean like a screwdriver antenna coil?
>
>> On 12/17/2014 11:30:03 AM, KJ6Y--- via TowerTalk (towertalk at contesting.com) wrote:
>>> Another way to add 160 to the Hytower is use one of the  mobile  antenna
>> coils from Hi-Q or similar.  You then have a  remotely tunable antenna for 160
>> and 80, with out having to change taps.
>>   
>>   
>> Skip,  KJ6Y
>> _Communications Service  Co_ (http://www.communicationsserviceco.com/)
>> 818-887-3569
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>>
>>   
>>   
>> In a message dated 12/17/2014 6:24:12 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>> patrick_g at windstream.net writes:
>>
>> The  Hy-Gain Hy-Tower (AKA  can work 160 with the base loading coil but
>> it  is not my preferred method.  If you have room for the "horizontal"
>> run, Hy-Gain has a kit to add 160 meters in a way I like better as it
>> requires no tapping of the coil and switching the coil in or out of the
>> circuit (not convenient.)
>>
>> The kit consists of a 40 meter trap which  is attached to the vertical at
>> the top of the 24 ft triangular portion and  continues on (bare antenna
>> wire) to the supplied end insulator (provided)  forming an inverted "L"
>> configuration.  The 40 Meter trap is to keep  the long wire from detuning
>> the antenna's 40 meter function. This makes  160 band switching
>> "automatic" like the other bands.
>>
>> Oh, ...and
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