[TAC] FW: Snake success?

[Greg Surma]

Sounds good....Hey Ted....how was the B&W antenna?  Was it worth the
effort to put it up?  

K8GL 

-----Original Message-----
From: tac-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:tac-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of tjrachwal at comcast.net
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 7:40 AM
To: k8dd at arrl.net
Cc: tac at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TAC] FW: Snake success?

You 40M guys might want to take note of this.  Kurt and I will have one
for both 160M and 80M.  We'll be using speaker twinlead and a 4:1 balun.
Just something to think about.
K8AQM

-------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- 
From: "Kurt T. Meyers" <pasteur at bex.net> 
To: "K8AQM" <K8AQM at arrl.net> 
Subject: Snake success? 
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:05:48 +0000 

Ted,
    Now that I can switch back and forth easily between my snake and my
40-M antenna, I am discovering that the snake is significantly effective
on European signals on that band. (Also today on 30 M, the snake helped
me copy a mobile from Arkansas). On 40 M, the snake is more than 2
wavelengths long. My guess is that's the key. I just don't have enough
real estate to go out 2 wavelengths on 80 M. Two wavelengths would be
351' on 80 M and 712' on 160 M, assuming velocity factor of .66. I wish
I had known about the snake when I lived on Dana St. I could have
sneaked one out into the park and run it along that row of trees heading
back toward the railroad tracks. No one would have known a thing during
winter time.
    This evening I logged OK3BJJ on 75 SSB.

73, Kurt
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