[Elecraft] Verticals

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> But you're in Florida, I wonder how this would work out in the desert
> of Southern AZ?

They would probably work better to Asia and Oceania from the desert of
Arizona than they work from the sandbar of Florida.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2014-09-11 3:08 PM, Wes (N7WS) wrote:
> Great job!
>
> But you're in Florida, I wonder how this would work out in the desert of
> Southern AZ?
>
> Wes  N7WS
>
>
> On 9/11/2014 8:56 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>>
>> I need to agree with Jim and others in support of the verticals.
>> I've been #2 in the world the last two years in the 100W/simple
>> antennas (verticals, dipoles) class of CQ DX Marathon.  My antennas
>> are variously an 80/40 trap inverted V at 40', an R5 or an N6BT
>> Q51 (bandswitched dipole for 20-10) at 18 feet.
>>
>> Those antennas have been responsible for DXCC Honor Roll CW and Mixed
>> as well as a major part of the 2500 (once I make my next submission)
>> in DXCC Challenge since moving to Florida 16 years ago and getting
>> back on the air after being essentially off for the previous 15. In
>> addition, the R5 and/or Q51 are responsible for 72 countries and 250
>> grids on six meters even though neither antenna is designed for that
>> band.
>>
>> The verticals and low dipoles are not [nearly] as good as the big
>> towers and [stacked] mono band beams I had in Ohio but they're a
>> long way better than no antenna or a random wire snaked around the
>> fence line.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>>    ... Joe, W4TV
>>
>
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