NINE elements for 160!?!

Any pictures online? Is this a rotatable rigid monster?

BTW, the log periodic on top of the tower sounds like a cool setup, I'd
rather roll my own antennas, but it was clever to market it as an
all-in-one solution. It's the very high end G5RV :-)

Dan

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NINE elements for 160!?!

Any pictures online? Is this a rotatable rigid monster?

It's a nine-element phased octagon with eight verticals on the rim and
one in the center.

Back when Electrospace was making nice verticals, I had two of theirs
phased in a variable-delay configuration that did a very nice job from
eastern Canada back around 1979. I was fairly loud just about anywhere
and easily able to work all continents from there. Never did make it to
JA on 75 or 80 like the guys with four-squares, though. Those verticals
were 32 feet with a top-hat on them. They were excellent on 75 and
literal killers on 40. The first QSO I had on the first one I put up was
long-path to VK on 40m CW. It was still daylight at my end of the path!

BTW, the log periodic on top of the tower sounds like a cool setup, I'd
rather roll my own antennas, but it was clever to market it as an
all-in-one solution. It's the very high end G5RV :-)

Well, no, it's NOTHING like a G5RV.


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Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667