On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:20:15 -0400, Chuck
wrote:

It is difficult to find much enthusiasm
for the performance of half-wave
verticals from folks who have actually
tried them. Your experience sure
supports that.

Hi Chuck,

I can report a bright side. During one field day, years ago, one
fellow brought in a baloon and hoisted enough wire into the sky to
work it as a halfwave 160M vertical. He used an optical rangefinder
to measure the height. He had this Army surplus tuner that tuned it
up to his rig. The 160M contacts he made told him he was the
strongest signal on the band (working 100W). Perhaps it helped that
we were in a school ball field on the top of a hill. To further add
to the mix, I suggested he tie the tuner to the fence line and
backstop.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

To further add
to the mix, I suggested he tie the tuner to the fence line and
backstop.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

That was canny advice, Richard... The top rail of the fence and
backstop 'could' have been an NVIS antenna - which will get you
smokin' reports out to a few hundred miles...
I do this routinely for Field Day with a horizontal loop for 80 meters
being strung about 20 feet high over a low, wet, fertilized field next
to a river... The guys run QRP off a battery and are amazed how they
can break pile ups... I have never bothered to point out to them that
the vast majority of their contacts are within a 500 mile circle...
They are happy and I believe in ignorance being bliss...


denny / k8do

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:34:14 -0700, Denny wrote:

To further add
to the mix, I suggested he tie the tuner to the fence line and
backstop.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

That was canny advice, Richard... The top rail of the fence and
backstop 'could' have been an NVIS antenna - which will get you
smokin' reports out to a few hundred miles...
I do this routinely for Field Day with a horizontal loop for 80 meters
being strung about 20 feet high over a low, wet, fertilized field next
to a river... The guys run QRP off a battery and are amazed how they
can break pile ups... I have never bothered to point out to them that
the vast majority of their contacts are within a 500 mile circle...
They are happy and I believe in ignorance being bliss...


denny / k8do

a local qrp contact is still a qrp contact. Many contacts is better
than few, if that's what you are wanting to make.

It might not win field day, but it has to be better than not being
heard atall.

--
73 for now
Buck, N4PGW

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