[UK-CONTEST] 20m vertical

[James Thresher]

>> So the way forward is a vertical beam :)

We've actually played around with these, a couple of the others in our club built one the other year for 40m, they had pretty good results with it. The big disadvantage of course is that you can't rotate it.

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From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ian Maude
Sent: 12 November 2008 14:24
To: UK-Contest
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 20m vertical

James Thresher wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> A beam correctly setup and at the right height will almost always outperform a vertical (1/4 or 5/8) regardless of ground conditions.
>
So the way forward is a vertical beam :)  Two of our team used a
vertical Moxon from Jura this year on 20m using 100W portable.  The
aerial almost had its feet in the water and was never more than about 10
feet from it even at low tide.  The result was astonishing.  This was
the end of September and in one afternon they worked 46 JA's, multiple
VK's etc.  In fact the signals were so strong it almost collapsed the
front end of the IC-7000 and they has to restart it!

You can see photo's of it on our blog at http://m0scg.blogspot.com

73 Ian

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Ian J Maude, G0VGS
SysOp GB7MBC DX Cluster
Member RSGB, GQRP
K2 #4044 |K3 #455
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