[TowerTalk] Help

[Jim Hargrave]

Arnie,
Don't give up on the J-pole. It’s a very effective antenna.
I built one about 30 years ago and it's still in use.
Mine is a tri-bander (146/223/440) I built it with copper water pipe (1 in. > 3/4 in. > 1.2 in.)
It is currently on top of my tower @ 60ft. I live in hill country, but have reasonable path to several repeaters, ranging from 25 to 50 miles away.

73, Jim – w5ifp at gvtc.com


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On
>> Behalf Of Russ Dearmore via TowerTalk
>> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 10:33 AM
>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Help
>> 
>> Arnie,  My first guess is that your son may have more trees at his
>> QTH than you do. At those frequencies that matters much more
>> than at HF.  Also it sounds like a different Xcvr was used so don't
>> rule out that his may have been on low power or that, if used, that
>> it may not be a good one.  Substitute another Xcvr and see if
>> anything changes....  Good luck...   Russ  K5ZZR
>>    My Heroes Wear Combat Boots!
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