[PaQSO] Party Roving

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

There would be no electrical advantage to using a dipole made from a  
tribander's driven element vs. using a dipole at the same height.  
Mechanical/erecting issues would be the difference. At 25 feet on 20 meters,  you're still 
not going to be very loud. On 20 meter CW you may do OK, on SSB  likely not.
 
I had good success this year feeding a quarter wave of wire on 40 meters  
and using the mag mount on the car for the counterpoise. It made for a very  s
imple and easily erected antenna. It worked very well from rare places  
like NUM and CRN this past October.
 
I've not tried such for the higher bands. I'm sure the antenna would work,  
I'm just not sure how much better it would be than the HamStick or other 
mobile  whips I've been using.
 
 
73  -   Jim   K8MR
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/10/2012 4:33:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
wa2fgk at yahoo.com writes:

For  several years I have enjoyed roving during the QSO Party. It gives me 
pleasure  to not only work the same station many times, but also hearing, 
"Thanks for  the new County".
Most of my fifty five years of hamming has been done on  bands above 50 
mhz. We now operate at my home QTH all the way to 10  ghz.
I have an antenna question. I've been using a 90 foot dipole with  coils 
for 40 and 80 meters. Very easy to install between a few trees.
I've  been thinking about getting something for 20 and 15 meters. 
I have  a push up mast tower that can hold a small antenna.
Now the  question
Has anyone used the DE from an old tribander, and would it be  worth 
getting up perhaps 25 feet. 
Would it be better than using a wire  dipole ?
Most of my rover operations is during the day, and 80% of my  contacts are 
now on 40 meters. Surely I would like to see more daytime  activity on 80 
meters.
Any thoughts would be appreciated
Merry Christmas  to All
Herb K2LNS
Usually use K3YTL in the  contest