[TowerTalk] SteppIR and SO2R

[Dave Hachadorian]

-----Original Message----- 
From: terry burge
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2019 1:27 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] SteppIR and SO2R

>Now multiple steppir antennas would work.

Terry
KI7M
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For many years, W7WW ran a tribander and a 2 el 40, with a Steppir Dipole 
between the two for SO2R.  That setup worked great!  A nice straight dipole 
at 75 feet is a kickass antenna!  The beauty of that setup is that the 
Steppir is always tuned to a band other than the run band, so it doesn't 
detune the tribander on the run band.  The Steppir might even have gotten 
some gain from the parasitic elements of the tribander.

After many years, the Steppir fell apart in a storm, and now W7WW runs a 
VA6AM Triplexer System, which works even better than the old setup.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Big Bear Lake, CA