[ILQSO] 40 meter horizontal mobile antenna ideas

[Hank Greeb]

Mike:

Look back in QST CD's.  There was a mobile antenna named "Texas 
Longhorn" or something similar.  If I remember, it was essentially two 
antennae, one mounted on the front bumper and the other on the back 
bumper, with an "element in between.  Most of the radiation was 
horizontally polarized.  I don't remember details of how the thing was 
fed. 

73 de n8xx Hg

p.s. Do participants in ILQP 2004 and earlier have experience which says 
that 40 meters is "the band" for in state contacts?  Based on MiQP and 
OQP I'd be very skeptical, unless propagation conditions are very, very 
different from those found in April and August.  I made very few intra 
state contacts on 40 or 20 meters during each of these contacts.  If 
80/75 doesn't open up by the time the contest ends, it would seem a very 
difficult contest.

motte at aeroinc.net wrote:

>Lean your Husler by tying the tip down towards the cab. I always thought they were keeping the whips out of the trees but it turns out the could get some horizontal polarization out of the vertical by tying it down.
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>Also there is a commercial antenna that they use in Africa. It is a bent pipe that attaches to the truck at the back of the box where it is also fed from using a matching Loop.  The pipe is mostly horizontal and terminates using a variable capacitor over the cab. The vari cap tunes the antenna over a wide range. Very rugged.
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>Have Fun
>73
>W9YS Mike
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