[TowerTalk] add a 3rd el to 40-2cd

[john at kk9a.com]

I meant to type 1/4 WL.  With 1/2 WL spacing it would work well

John KK9A


On Tue, March 13, 2018 3:35 pm, john at kk9a.com wrote:

Two shorty 40's can work amazingly well together however I also disagree
with Steve only because of the 1/8 WL stacking distance.

John KK9A


From:	"Bob Shohet, KQ2M" <kq2m at kq2m.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:12:16 -0400

I respectfully have to disagree with Steve on this.

Stacking with a lower antenna is highly unlikely to produce a lower wave
angle.
 So a Full-sized 3L will still be almost always superior to a 2L at the same
height and that extra 1 – 2 db at the right angle at the right time with the
full-sized 3L antenna could be significant.  What stacking might give you
is a
higher (than the 3L) wave angle that is useful to some population area of
contesters that you will now be louder into.  And it will give you
potentially
three different wave angles to choose from if you phase them and have Upper,
Lower or Both switching.  However, you will have a less broadband antenna
with
reduced F/B and F/S which could handicap you when dealing with qrm and qrn.

And you will have to put that 2nd antenna very low to get meaningful wave
angle
choices and those wave angles may not be very useful especially for
working DX.

73

Bob  KQ2M

From: k7lxc--- via TowerTalk
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 12:54 PM
To: bmarx at bellsouth.ne ; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] add a 3rd el to 40-2cd


> With one antenna at 72 ft why not just add new antenna lower on the
>
tower>?

    One of my all time favorite ideas. Stacked would give you similar
performance to a full sized 3L plus you get angle and directional diversity.
And you don't need expensive rotators! Like my old buddy Mark, AA6DX sez:
"Worky, worky!"

Cheers,
Steve     K7LXC