[Antennas] Question

Sat, 2 Aug 2003 09:16:00 -0400

Carl,

I am quite surprised that no one has suggested a multi-band vertical, which,
by the way, abhor trees -hi hi.

It's as if people don't  believe they work - ha.  For DX the vertical, if
mounted close to ground, has about a 7 degree take off angle, which is very
beneficial to long distance communications. The fact that you are emitting a
vertical signal doesn't make a whole lot of difference to a DX receiving
station, because the polarity is apt to change as a signal bounces off the
ionosphere.

Another good thing is that you don't a lot of roots to make putting your
ground plane just under the earth difficult.  The more the radials the
better.

Many dipoles are set up as inverted V's, which gives them vertical polarity
also.  Besides, verticals can also exhibit as much as 6 dB GAIN over a
dipole (dBd)

Don't exclude the vertical, or even two of them fed with a phasing harness.
I think you'll do fine.  BTW, a good text is the ARRL Antenna Manual.

gl es 73 de n8csp k

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:44:38 -0500 "Laptops" <[email protected]> writes:
> > I have just moved to this location it is 2 acers Problem no trees and
> > no
> > time to put up a tower anybody got any ideas.The only tress are very
> > small
> > yet only planted at the most 8 years.Help want to get on the air
> > again just
> > cant think of something.
> > Carl W9TAD
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