[TowerTalk] 40 meter antenna

[Hardy Landskov]

Jim, Paul, et al,
The Delta Loop is a great antenna if the bottom of the triangle is ON TOP. I
think Lloyd & Iris pointed that out years ago when they were in Richmond,
CA.
73 N7RT

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Thomson
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 12:50 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] 40 meter antenna

Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 06:22:29 -0400
From: N1BUG <paul at n1bug.com>
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 40 meter antenna

On 05/19/2016 12:27 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
>
> Will it work to put up an inverted V with a vertical reflector behind it?
> Would rather not put up 2 verticals becuse of the radials needed.

Probably not, but I will second the idea of adding an inverted V reflector.
Years ago I very successfully used 3 and 4 element inverted V wire beams on
20 meters. I currently have a 3 element up for 40 meters.

73,
Paul N1BUG

##  what else that works is a 1/2 wave sloper...with a delta loop reflector
behind it. 
I have see that used on 80m with good results.

##  the 40m array in the old arrl ant books..using  4-5  x 1/2 wave slopers
also
works good.  One is always a DE, the rest are REFs.   Simple + effective. 

Jim   VE7RF

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