[TowerTalk] 80 Meter trap design needed

[Mark - N5OT]

Dave has read my mind.

I'll mount the trap at the top of the tower, and above that will be 
something like a 10 foot stinger (insulated from the tower of course - 
probably the middle of a deceased 40 meter split element or something).  
At the top of the stinger would be four top-load wires of a length that 
would bring the antenna to resonance at the desired frequency on 160 meters.

Mark N5OT


On 10/23/2021 7:28 AM, Haring family wrote:
> Is this on top of the Rohn 25G that you plan on using for an antenna?
>
> What is above or outboard which would need to be supported by the 
> trapour otherwise insulated?
>
> 73,
>
> Dave N3AC
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 07:56 Mark - N5OT <r-emails at n5ot.com> wrote:
>
>     I hope to make a trap vertical that works on 80 and 160.  I hope
>     to find
>     an 80 meter trap design that can handle full power.  The 80 meter
>     energy
>     would stop when it gets to the trap, but the trap would pass 160
>     meter
>     energy.
>
>     It won't be suspended with wire so smallness and lightweightness
>     are not
>     necessary criteria.  I hope someone can just shoot me a design and
>     values.  Everything I find searching the internet is less
>     straightforward than "make a coil like this and stick a capacitor of
>     this value here" which I would think would be the easiest way forward.
>
>     Any advice?
>
>     73 - Mark N5OT
>
>
>
>
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