[TowerTalk] Laws of Physics Repealed!

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

On 10/24/2015 9:49 AM, Daniel Danny Horvat wrote:
> Verticals, R5/R7 R6000 R8 and also clones AV620, AV640 are IMO better
> than 43 foot verticals or even worse CHA250 and clone verticals.
> There are number of people having 300 plus DXCC countries done with
> these verticals and they found them great for small and no radial
> fieldantennas.

Absolutely!  I've been using nothing but an R5, R7 or R6000 and low
dipoles (N6BT Q51 at 20' for 20-10 and trapped 160/80/40 inverted V
at 40') ever since moving to Florida.  The last two years I was #2
in the world in CQ's DX Marathon - "100W, basic antennas" class and
have made DXCC Honor Roll (Mixed and CW).

Sure - a good Yagi high in the air would be better (anyone know of a
used HDX-555MDPL or HDX-572MDPL available at a reasonable price?) but
given the low visual profile and ease of installation, the R5, R7,
R6000, R7000, and R8 are hard to beat.

73,

   ... Joe, W4TV


On 10/24/2015 9:49 AM, Daniel Danny Horvat wrote:
> Roger,
>
> There is no R6 antenna, there is a R-6000 antenna which I designed for
> Cushcraft followed by R8 antenna which was covered in K7LXC & N0AX report
> with high score.
>
> MFJ/HyGain did copy the design just few months after R6000 was advertised
> and they implemented their known series LC resonators instead  parallel LC
> traps.
>
> I was against implementing a 80m on R8 vertical back then (1998) due low
> efficiency and narrow bandwidth. MFJ has no problem to claim anything just
> to sell.
>
> Verticals,  R5/R7 R6000 R8 and also clones AV620, AV640 are IMO better than
> 43 foot verticals or even worse CHA250 and clone verticals.
> There are number of people having 300 plus DXCC countries done with these
> verticals and they found them great for small and no radial field antennas.
>
> There are many claims about many antennas out there which do not meet the
> truth but as mentioned in one post, even light bulb can radiate.
>
> 73 Danny N4EXA aka E73M
>
>
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> Danny Horvat,  E73M
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