[Elecraft] FW: Using your tower as a vertical - 160 or 80

[Erik Basilier]

Vic, thanks for your comments!
Erik K7TV

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From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Vic
Rosenthal 4X6GP
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2017 12:21 AM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FW: Using your tower as a vertical - 160 or 80

Regarding using a tower as a vertical:

Some years ago I had a 50-foot mast with a tribander on it next to my house.
I ran two wires out my window, one down to the base of the mast and one to a
point on it that produced a reasonable SWR on 80 meters. 
The rotor cable and feedline for the beam ran down to the ground, and then
back up to the shack. No ferrites or anything on the feedline. I wrapped the
rotor cable around a ferrite rod at the rotor controller. I had a system of
16 radials, each about 20' long, and in a half-circle.

I ran about 600 watts to this arrangement and didn't notice RF issues in the
shack. It worked surprisingly well, producing contacts from here into the US
as far west as Illinois.

73,
Vic, 4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
Formerly K2VCO
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/