[TowerTalk] HFT

Wed Mar 17 16:19:33 EDT 2021

I contest from a 38’ sailboat located near Seattle. When people comment on the difficulties of a small city lot it brings a smile to my face. My “lot” is 12’ wide at it’s widest and 38’ long with a 45’ aluminum mast in the middle.

While it would be nice to get a small beam to the top of my mast 45’ above the saltwater, it isn’t practical nor safe. I have to put the antennas up on Friday morning and take them down on Monday. It’s only due to the kindness of my powerboat neighbors I can do that as my antennas occupy their airspace.

I’m using two light weight inductively loaded dipoles with  featherweight telescoping fiberglass poles as supports.  They get hoisted aloft using spinnaker halyards and fly just below the headstay, sailor-speak for the top guy wire at the pointy end of the boat. Those, combined with two different vertical configurations depending on the contest, are used on 160/80 to complete the system

We do what we can with what we have. As long as it’s fun all’s good. Tnx for your suggestion however.

73,

Patrick, W7TMT

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From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Larry B. via TowerTalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:45:41 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] HFT

Perhaps the UrbanBeam is doing better than the dipole?

73 -- Larry -- W1DYJ

-----Original Message-----
From: W7TMT - Patrick
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 13:40
To: Steve Dyer W1SRD ; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] HFT

Wasnï¿½t suggesting they were in trouble. I was just offering my observation
that the product offerings have in fact changed.  Given the price, something
like a dipole is likely very low demand. So itï¿½s not surprising, and would
make good business sense, to remove such items from their product line.

Patrick

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From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Steve Dyer
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Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 10:34:24 AM
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They announced sometime back that they were "simplifying" the ordering
and manufacturing process and creating packaged antennas that included
the most popular options bundled.
You can argue the strategy, but it's not indicative of a company in
trouble as the first note suggested.
I suspect a phone call would get you want you wanted if the bundle
wasn't satisfactory. My experience is they are very easy to work with.
73,
Steve
W1SRD

On 3/17/2021 10:29, W7TMT - Patrick wrote:
> I was looking for an old style (straight element) 20-10M dipole. No longer
> appears on the site as best as I can tell. Thereï¿½s a heading for Dipole
> but itï¿½s for an add-on  not a plain standalone unit. Maybe Iï¿½m just
> missing it.
>
> Patrick, W7TMT
>
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> From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Artek
> Manuals <Manuals at ArtekManuals.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 10:18:23 AM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] HFT
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> When I looked last Friday you could no longer buy the standard 20-6M
> products ( 3E, 2E etc) . You now had no choice but to but buy an antenna
> With the 30/40M sweeps which have been problematic.
>
> Go here
> https://consumer.steppir.com/product-category/horizontal-antennas/
>
> Tthen click on "3Element Products" ..You will see they no longer offer
> the 20-6 3E or under 2element products they no longer offer the 2E
>
> Dave
> NR1DX
>
> On 3/17/2021 1:02 PM, Steve Dyer W1SRD via TowerTalk wrote:
>> What evidence do you have for that statement?
>> The web site looks like it has the same products they have for years.
>> Steve
>> W1SRD
>>
>> On 3/17/2021 9:51, Artek Manuals wrote:
>>> Probably one of few things that is keeping S-IR alive ... I know they
>>> have REDUCED their product offering to hams in last month or two
>>>
>>> Dave
>>> NR1DX
>>>
>>> On 3/17/2021 12:40 PM, Bruce Horn wrote:
>>>> https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/wall-street-tries-shortwave-radio-to-make-highfrequency-trades-across-the-atlantic
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "k7lxc--- via TowerTalk" <towertalk at contesting.com>
>>>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 9:05:09 AM
>>>> Subject: [TowerTalk] HFT
>>>>
>>>> Howdy, TowerTalkians -
>>>>
>>>> ??? ??? This is a little off topic so feel free to use your delete
>>>> key.?????? ??? In the last month I've spotted 3 big HF yagi
>>>> installations mounted on non-ham towers on non-ham properties. One
>>>> had 3 big yagis, one was a big SteppIR by itself and the other had 2
>>>> big SteppIRs. All were pointed fixed east (I'm in the Seattle
>>>> area).?????? ??? Turns out that these are probably used in High
>>>> Frequency Trading. That is, stock trading where fiber wasn't fast
>>>> enough and the users have turned to HF to decrease the lag time. I
>>>> thought it was pretty interesting and I'm curious how much this is
>>>> being used. And at least they're not in the ham bands -
>>>> hi.??????Cheers,Steve??? ??? K7LXC
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