[MNham] Verticals

Sat, 6 Jul 2002 08:55:19 -0500

Chuck,

We put up a GAP at Camp Courage and I thought it was barely capable of
holding itself up mechanically.  It does work OK, though.  I use a Butternut
HF9V at my home QTH, and it is far sturdier.  Both the GAP & Butternut work
well ground-mounted with radials. The Cushcraft R-series work well for above
ground installations, but don't provide the lower frequency bands.  I saw
what appeared to be an MFJ vertical on the tugboat display at the Science
Museum of MN yesterday. I'm not sure how it works, but it did appear to have
lots of really big doo-dads hung on it that might make it mechanically
unstable in a windy location. I've also had good luck with an end-fed wire
fed against a basement egress window well retainer - those galvanized
dealies - used as a ground. The wire heads straight up from ground level for
about 18 feet, then out horizontally for a total length of 130', and it's
used on 80/160M. It'd probably work better with some radials, but I'm lazy,
don'cha know.

73 and good luck,
Pat
Patrick Tice
[email protected]

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Subject: [MNham] Verticals

Anyone with some vertical advise out there?  I just picked up a decent HF
rig
and I've been toying around with the idea of putting up a simple vertical.
I
want something simple to operate (no tuning or tinkering).  Right now I am
leaning toward the Gap Challenger antenna because it would give me 80-10M
coverage, as well as 6M and 2M, which my new rig includes, although the 2M
portion is not as important to me as 6M.  Anyone have any other ideas?  The
simpler, the sooner I get the antenna up and start talking on what already
seems to have a very hot receiver!

73,
Chuck Gysi, N2DUP
Rochester MN
[email protected]
www.scancomm.net / www.RadioMN.com / www.scanning.tk
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