[TowerTalk] Phasing two GAP monoband verticals
ko7ss at yahoo.com
ko7ss at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 2 12:11:51 EDT 2017
I haven't been able to find anything specific on the WWW.
My QTH is on solid rock with a few trees and bushes, in an HOA area. A 1/4 wave ground mounted
vertical could never be made efficient, and an elevated vertical with elevated radials would be
too easily seen. So I have been using a GAP vertical (dipole) on 40M with good results, almost
the same on DX paths as my 80/40 OCF (that has its main lobes to EU and JA)
I want to phase two of the 40M monogaps, to get some F/B away from a noise source that has shown
up lately. I have had extensive experience with ComTek and Array Solutions classic 4 square setups
using 1/4 wave verticals.
Has anyone done this with the DX Engineering or Array Solutions boxes and GAP verticals? No need
to discuss the GAP antenna theory but they are not 1/4 verticals. It would be an HOA clean way
for me to get some gain and F/B, but I don't want to spend the $$$ if the whole system is based
on 1/4 wave verticals.
73 / Thanks, Bill KO7SS, on top of Mt Lemmon in AZ
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