[TowerTalk] phased verticals again

[Dave Sublette]

I have a dipole 4 square array strung around my 150 foot elevated 160M ground plane.  The newer Comtek phasing boxes are built for ONLY quarter wave vertical arrays.  My Comtek box is a really old one and can handle dipole as well as quarter wave vertical array.  My array works quite well and has for close to 20 years now.

Dave, K4TO
> On Sep 4, 2017, at 7:20 PM, Rudy Bakalov via TowerTalk <towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:
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> Well, it's an option, but you need the height for this arrangement. In the case of 80, assuming you have the bottom of the dipole 10' from the ground, you need a ~105' tower. What you are describing is the K8UR array.
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> Rudy N2WQ
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> Sent using a tiny keyboard.  Please excuse brevity, typos, or inappropriate autocorrect.
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>> On Sep 4, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:
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>> Gentlemen,
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>> I wonder if it could be a good idea to use vertical dipoles instead of 1/4 w verticals and groundplanes. That way you would do away with the groundplane (that seems to cause issues). My idea was to "hang" up four full size dipoles or maybe shorted such.
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>> Just a thought.
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>> 73 de,
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>> Hans N2JFS
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