[Antennas] RE: ver tickle

[n8de at thepoint.net]

My 80m vertical [soon to be array] is a 60-foot aluminum  
self-supporting tower with about 4' of 2" aluminum tubing out the top.  
  NO guys are required.

The tower is anchored in 1.5 cubic yards of concrete and insulated  
with solid fiberglass rod at the bottom of each leg.

When all 3 of the towers in this array are installed, they will have  
remotely switched phasing and 60 radials under each one.

Waiting patiently for Spring/Summer to finish the project.

Don
N8DE

Quoting Joe <nss at mwt.net>:

> 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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