George,

You can have a very effective 80 meter vertical in your back yard on a city lot. A good long time friend of mine here in Searcy, in fact he was the best man at mine and Kim's wedding, is Jim Crosby, K5GK. Jim was an ADXA member for several years back in the 70's before other interests took him away from DX. He lives on a small city lot in Searcy but he took a 30ft push up pole, insulated it from ground at the base and put a CB ground plane antenna on top. This provided an additional 10 ft or so of vertical height and he connected the ground plane elements to the center vertical element. This allowed the ground plane elements to function as a top hat and resonated the array on 80/75 meters. Jim put 16 radials underneath. He didn't have quite enough room to lay out full length elements in all directions and they weren't symmetrical all the way around, but it worked great and he worked a lot of 80 meter DX. So, if you don't mind having a CB ground plane sticking up in your back yard on a 30ft push up pole you can establish yourself as an 80 meter DX'er and start walking over Earl and Rick in the pileups.........you'll never beat me out though but hey, you can't win 'em all !!!!!!  :-))

73 Joel W5ZN

On 2022-04-25 20:34, WB5JJJ wrote:

Thanks, Pat.

 

80m and 160m are a "pipe dream" with my compromised antenna configurations.  I can do better on 80m than 160m for sure.  Of course 6m is the magic band for sure.  When it's open, the world is at your doorstep.

 

Now if I had 10 acres, I can see directional arrays for 160m to begin with.  If I could just have gotten one of our massive rombics out of Vietnam and back to Arkansas, I would be set.  Actually, for a few days I was using one of those 50Kw beasts to run Navy MARS phone patches when another operator max tuned our Henry 4K using SWR.  It was fried.  A quick call to the transmitter site and some phone line patching got me a ~5Kw out of a transmitter and massive LPA at 75' while waiting on a new Henry.  

 

73's

George - WB5JJJ

 

 

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On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 9:10 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

George, WB5JJJ, has provided updated DXCC Standings information.  He has been busy taking advantage of higher SSNs and added 25 to his Desoto Challenge total.  George is up to 1300 now and has set his sights on 1350 or 1400.  George added nine new ones on 10M and the rest scattered between 20 and 12M.

 

With a few more on 80M and 10M you'll have 5BDXCC George.  Nice going OM!

 

73,

Pat, W5VY

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