[TowerTalk] Help Wanted

W0MU Mike Fatchett w0mu at w0mu.com
Sun Jan 5 16:00:19 EST 2020


You could try one of the multiband verts that do not require radials 
such as the R8/R9 Series.

W0MU

On 1/5/2020 11:31 AM, Tony Rogozinski wrote:
> I've thought about a Hex Beam quite a lot but then I'm into an 
> assembly where there is not much room due to the style of the roof and 
> then a rotor and cable, etc.
>
> And then dipoles for 30/40/80  which at this point in the sunspot 
> cycle are the most important bands,and, the Carolina Windom just 
> doesn't work well at  this location....
>
> it was installed at another QTH not far from here and it worked FB.
>
> An all band vertical seems to be the simplest solution and an antenna 
> with different polarization which might work better.  It is noisy here 
> that's why I thought that putting
>
> a vertical at the top of that mast might be better than at a lower 
> level.   Maybe I'm wrong....but the mast is there and if I want the 
> antenna lower then I'd have to cut the
>
> mast off....not sure that I want to do that.
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
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