[Antennas] RE: ver tickle

[Joe]

Hi Kevin,
Just curious as to what you used to make ur self supporting vert?

I had a full sized on on 80 when i was a novice in da 70's.  Was the 
best antenna!  when I and the rest of my novice buddies with their 
dipoles at 20, 30,  60 feet got on I always blew them out of the water.  
Always had the best sig.  but mine was made of standard conduit. 
starting with 1/2 inch and tapering up to ohhhh maybe 2 inch/  dont 
remember.  but it was FAR  from self supporting,

Joe WB9SBD

KeViN_S wrote:

>I'd say forget the Inverted V's. The vertical will
>do well enough for DX.
>I had a full size vertical for 80m for about 20+
>years.
>About 100 radials I suppose now.
>
>It was just a bit too tall unguyed. I finally put in a
>loading coil using either loadcoil.exe or vertload.exe
>programs found on the Internet. Shortened it by about
>15 ft. 
>Self supports ok with 4*4 posts and works just great
>in the pileups.
>
>I might try the same thing for 160m about 3-4 ft.
>beside this 80m this summer. (of course a lot more
>shortened)
>
>There is a guy who has a fiberglass pole self
>supported 80m and shortened with coil and a page on
>Internet.
>I don't know the url but googling short 80m vertical
>might get it. If your interested enough I might be
>able to locate it again. I printed the info somewhere
>for future reference.
>
>
>73
>CW!
>Kevin
>
>http://home.kc.rr.com/n0cwr/ham.htm
>
><SNIP!>
>I've been thinking lately about putting up a vertical
>for 75-80M.  In
> addition
>installing one or two inverted "V's" from the top as
>guy's and
> antenna's. anybody
>done this and what's the hot tip..
>
>Dennis  W7JX
>
>
>
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