[UK-CONTEST] Antenna advice!

[Darrell G0HVQ]

What an excellent link.

I'm a 4BTV user and concur with the findings, it's great on 40m, bit of a 
compromise on the other bands, but if you want multiband capability with one 
set of radials/feeder then it's not a bad choice. Here I've worked 153 DXCCs 
on 20m and 127 DXCCs on 40m at the bottom of the cycle in 1 year, with most 
operation in contests. You can also add the WARC bands to it for next to 
nothing....1/4 wave vertical wires run in parallel to the main vertical, 
suspended from the 40m spider and spaced off the main vert at the bottom 
with a 4 inch peice of wood, attached via a hoseclip at the base feedpoint 
...134 DXCCs on 17m with this too :-)

I also plan winding an 80m vertical on a fishing pole, must get than sorted 
before CQ WW :-)

73
Darrell G0HVQ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Swiffin" <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>; "Tammie Evans" <m3enf at dsl.pipex.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Antenna advice!



> Hi Tamie,
> I would check out Jims interesting post on his IOTA experiments back in 
> August, from the archives:
>
> http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/uk-contest/2008-August/011046.html
>