[Antennas] Butternut Vertical

Sun, 18 Aug 2002 00:22:01 -0500

As I mentioned before, I made a bracket out of 1/16" Al sheet, bolted to
the ground connection (where you would normally attach the coax braid),
with a SO-239 or equivalent connector attached.  Put a PL-259 on the
antenna end of the 75 ohm matching section.  Use insulated wire to
connect the SO-239 to the vertical radiator; I put some coax sealant to
prevent moisture shorting out.  If you make the bracket wide enough, it
is also a convenient place to attach radials.  Works great.

Dave          W9LYA
What wrought doG hath?

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:07:09 -0500 "Pinner Family" <[email protected]>
writes:
> Hello Group,
> 
>  Add the CPK Capacitive counterpoise kit. Drop Bencher/Butternut a 
> email and
> see what they have to say about it. Love my HF6V (except for the 75 
> ohm
> matching line failures at the connection point)
> 
> 73
> 
> Tom
> 
> URL for butternut www.bencher.com
> 
> 
> 
> Chris, the tradeoff here is that with the arrangement you describe, 
> you
> have to have supports for four 60 ft wires in addition to the 
> support for
> the vertical. In order for the radials to perform properly they must 
> be
> resonated in pairs and preferably spaced at 90 deg intervals. This 
> is quite
> an array of wire and tubing up in the air, equivalent to two 
> complete 75
> meter dipoles plus the vertical.If there is so little room that a 
> vertical
> is under consideration, it is hard to see where the room will come 
> from for
> 
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