[QCWA] Amen

[Dave Heil]

  I sense topic drift.

My 80 and 30m inverted vees fell to the ground this winter during a huge 
winter storm with high winds.  My only alternative on these two bands 
was a ground-mounted Hustler 6BTV with twenty 25-foot radials.
I worked 9U4U on 80m with a couple of calls, snagged TX5K on 30m RTTY 
and made it through a pileup to QSO Nodir EY8MM a couple of evenings ago.

Sometimes the best counter to a particular claim is evidence.

73,

Dave Heil K8MN

On 3/11/2013 07 00, Tom H Childers wrote:
 > Not True, unless you are talking about multiband trap verticals.
 >
 > I use a ground plane vertical on 30m and have been successful working
 > a lot of DX with it for several years.
 >
 > The vertical is mounted on a 2 inch ten foot galvanized steel tube
 > driven into the ground two feet.  The radiator is made of 6063-T6
 > stepped tubing mounted on the steel pole with an insulated plate of
 > 0.25 6063-T6 plate.  Four 0.25 wavelength radials eight feet above
 > ground are attached to the steel mounting pole.  The coax center pin
 > is connected to the vertical tubing and the coax shield is connected
 > to the steel support tube.  The radials also act as guy wires for the
 > assembly.
 >
 > Many low band DXer's use four inch diameter aluminum irrigation pipe
 > for short verticals on 160 and 80m.
 >
 > Efficiant vertical antennae do not have traps in them ;o)
 >
 > 73,
 > Tom
 > Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
 > ARRL Lifetime Member
 > QCWA Lifetime Member





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