[Antennas] Slopers

Sat, 24 Aug 2002 17:50:22 -0400

Ive been using the DX-B 160 - 20 mtr sloper with good success...it compar=
es well to the loop some of the times but not always...funny thing with m=
ine though...I have a Hygain Hytower vertical about 65 feet away...I atta=
ched the top of the sloper to my chimney and sloped it in towards the bas=
e of the vertical as I had no other chioces on direction...it shows signi=
ficant gain away from the vertical as well as a pretty nice gain in about=
 a 90 degree width...good luck..  Tim  WB8OWX
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> Has anyone had any experience with  dipole slopers?  I've used one with=
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> good (I think) results from a mountain location in Colorado.  But  I =

> didn't have any other antennas for comparison.  This was  a 20M  dipole=
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> with a tree being the support .  The high end was about 20 feet up, the=
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> angle was about 30-40 degrees, and the low end was about 5 feet off the=
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> ground. I sloped to the East.  I was able to have regular sked with an =

> Iowa station in the mornings and worked Sweden . This during Mid July t=
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> Mid August.. Has anyone modeled a sloping dipole similar to this?  =

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> Mke Burger at the University of Hawaii at Monoa's ham radio club, UHAM,=
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> has modeled verticals and dipoles, and has a lot of good comparison =

> info, and insights, on the clubs web site,   =

> http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/index.html.  He shows that a horizontal=
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> dipole up 3/8 wavelength is hard to beat.
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> Thanx for any comments,  Terry,  WA=D8ITP   =

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