[600MRG] 600m Antenna

[Brian, WA1ZMS]

Bob-

My 2 cents....

Seems like there's a lot going on within that antenna design.  I have not looked at the NEC model but I expect what makes it "work" comes down to the radials he has. A few 1/4-wave radials makes a big difference.

The slinky could very well be replaced with just a single loading coil. And the drop wire at the far end of the horizontal wire is likely cancelling some vertical radiation from the slinky. That's counter productive.

My feeling is that if you could scale every dimmension he used by 4x, then you'd have the same antenna performance it gives but on 630m.  But for all that effort.....you'd be better off putting up a single vertical wire with lots of capacity hat wire and forget the slinky part.

-Brian, WA1ZMS

> On Apr 27, 2018, at 4:03 PM, Bob and Jane <bobjane99 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Has anyone looked at the 160m antenna design described in the May     issue of QST (page 43)?
> 
> Would something like that work on 600m if scaled correctly?
> 
> The NEC data is available on the ARRL website, which someone who knew what they were doing (that leaves me out), could play with the parameters to see if a reasonable antenna design could be created.
> 
> Bob, WB8ILI
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