[SixClub] 6 meter vertical

Thu, 26 Feb 2004 05:47:18 -0800 (PST)

Hi!

A friend of mine has an HF station and he only uses
verticals (for space reasons). He has no trouble at
all working stations from eastern europe, Australia,
All the way down to Argentina, the states, Mexico,
etc... with just 25 watts. It could be a fact that you
lose those 20  DBs, but, when the band opens, anything
will work.

On the big winter 2001 opening, I had a vertical 1/2
dipole on 52.525 and I worked both types of stations;
verticals and horizontals, from the same grids and
around the same power levels, in FM 5/9. I worked a
station in Michigan that had only 10 watts and an
AR-6. It was 5/7, but did the job!

Gabriel Sierra, WP3BM

--- Joe N3PKC <[email protected]> wrote:
>     It's interesting to have two radios on the same
> frequency with antennas of completely opposite
> polarity.  I'm sure it can't be true but it almost
> seemed like one antenna would pick up where the
> other had left off.  Like the "low spots" in the
> modulation on one antenna would be a "high spot" on
> the other.  Of course I may have been just hearing
> things from sitting and listening to .11 and .125
> static for too long.
>     I guess I'm willing to believe that a signal
> would be attenuated to some extent by a completely
> different "polarity".  However, if this was such a
> big factor, HF verticals would not be very
> popular...  I guess It's time for some simplex
> experimentation if I'm going to come to a conclusion
> 
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Gabriel Sierra
Moondancer Recording Studios
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