[Elecraft] Re:Alligators and Bats

Thu Jan 10 23:38:01 2002

Hello George and others
I live on a very small lot, with antenna space of about 60 ft wide by 50 ft
deep (the back half of the lot, includes air space over house).
In this little space I have a pair of 50 ft dipoles I run phased on 40m, 30m
and 20m.  This array faces east.  I also have one 40m dipole facing N-S for
working the west coast.
I recently put up a 160m antenna, 40 ft tall, with 5 30 ft top loading
wires.

I admit all this looks like I have built a trap to comb birds out of the
air.  But it all works.

73, Bob N6WG

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of George, W5YR
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 11:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Re:Alligators and Bats

[email protected] wrote:
>
> Just remember any signal is only as good as its antenna.  Try to run a
gain
> antenna whenever possible, especially if you are QRP.  Yes, the K2 does
hear
> better but antenna gain cannot be overlooked; use wire antennas!

Rod, could you elaborate on this point a little? Few people using wire
antennas can achieve much if any gain over a dipole since they seldom have
the room and other facilities required to erect a wire beam or a steerable
array of some sort.

I use a pair of 20-meter EDZ's mounted at right angles to take advantage of
the directivity but the gain, except on 20 where it is 3 db, is negligible
on 40, for example.

So, what "wire antennas" do you recommend to obtain "antenna gain?"

72/73/oo, George W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe
Amateur Radio W5YR, in the 56th year and it just keeps getting better!
QRP-L 1373 NETXQRP 6 SOC 262 COG 8 FPQRP 404 TEN-X 11771
Icom IC-756PRO #02121  Kachina #91900556  IC-765 #02437

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