[VHFcontesting] 6 Meter Antenna

[Donald Huntington]

I'd go with the higher antenna for long haul tropo and a lower antenna for sporadic E and meteor scatter. I am assuming you don't live on a hill or mountain...hi hi. What ever you decide will work and you WILL have fun. 73, Don  K1DH
 
 


 






>From: "Tom Branch" 


>To: 


>Subject: [VHFcontesting] 6 Meter Antenna 

>Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:29:27 -0600 

> 

>Greetings, 

> 

>I'm adding a 6 meter antenna to my farm to play around on 6. I have two 

>options: 60 feet in the air on my tower with 200 feet of coax, or at 25 feet 

>with 40 feet of coax. The tower mount is clear in all directions--the lower 

>height is not. I'm guessing the loss on the coax far outweighs the height 

>advantage. 

> 

>Thoughts? 

> 

>73 de Tom 

> 

>tom at k4nr.org 

>http://www.k4nr.org 

> 

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