[TowerTalk] 80 meter vertical or

[Gene Smar]

John:
     My tower is topped with a Bencher Skyhawk tribander where I grounded all the parasitics to the boom. I also shunt feed the tower on 160M. FWIW.
73 de Gene Smar AD3F 

Sent from my Radio Shack TRS-80 model 100 laptop 
 
  On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 6:14 PM, john at kk9a.com<john at kk9a.com> wrote:   With a half sloper the tower becomes a radiator. Whether it works well or
not is very dependent on the tower structure.

John KK9A


From:    Gene Smar AD3F wrote:

TT:
    I do what Chuck does for 80M - half-sloper wire - 1/4 wl long - hung
off 
the tower from about 50 FAGL. Coax shield to tower, center conductor to
sloper 
wire.  It works well, i.e. low SWR except at upper band edge, and work what
I 
hear.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F 


On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 1:48 PM, Chuck Dietz<w5prchuck at gmail.com> wrote: 
  
Won't need a tuner if the wire is cut to a quarter wavelength on 80. This
is called a "Half-Sloper" or "Quarter Wave" sloper. Should be plenty of
information about them online. Great DX antenna.

Chuck W5PR

_______________________________________________



_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk at contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk