[Elecraft] Verticals

[Jim Rogers]

I have to jump in here and give some support to my friend Bill Levy.  
Years ago, in my earlier years of amateur radio I could not afford a 
beam or rotator, so I delved in the antenna section of the handbook and 
came up with an array of three phased verticals on 20M. This was during 
the time of the Danny Wiel and Gus Browning DXPeditions. I found the 
verticals to be quite effective, as I worked many of the exotic 
destinations of Danny and Gus.  W4ECI, "Mr. Ack" as he was know locally, 
and the sponsor of many of these DXPeditions, once asked what I was 
running? It gave me a great sense of pride to tell him, 100W and 
homebrew phased verticals.

A friend in Virginia, K4XT, whom I work regularly on a sked, is running 
a pair of R7s phased appropriately and is quite satisfied with them.  
Before he had a big US Tower and multi-element tri-bander.  Just got 
tired of all the hassle and runs the verticals.

Any antenna, verticals, or the big yagis require some degree of 
expertise to use them to their best effectiveness.
Verticals get a bad rap most of the time because of the old adage, 
"verticals radiate poorly in all directions". In my experience, 
verticals used and installed properly are quite an effective antenna.

Jim, W4ATK
Celebrating 61 years of Amateur Radio
P.S. All of my antennas today are in my attic. I will see you on the DX 
bands!

On 9/11/2014 7:29 AM, Barry wrote:
> Bill Levy wrote
>> I had no trouble at all keeping in touch with my family using an early R5
>> vertical in 5H3 land when I was working there.
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>> Bill N2WL
>> ex 5H3WL, 5Z4PI and VQ9WL
> Having those callsigns gave you an extra 20 db gain.  I've tried a few
> verticals over the years and found them to be poor performers.
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> Barry W2UP
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