Flagpole antennas
 

Looking for suggestions for flagpole design for Florida Mobile Home Park
where flagpole OK, antennas not OK. Thought of the Diamond shaped flagpole
configuration as a (CAP) top-loaded vertical. Anybody tried this? Note, my
ground is probably terrible, and as a stealth antenna, radial (maybe 2) must
be installed after dark Looking to run about 100W.

TIA

--tm

WD4AON

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:16:40 -0400, "box90d" wrote:

Looking for suggestions for flagpole design for Florida Mobile Home Park
where flagpole OK, antennas not OK. Thought of the Diamond shaped flagpole
configuration as a (CAP) top-loaded vertical. Anybody tried this? Note, my
ground is probably terrible, and as a stealth antenna, radial (maybe 2) must
be installed after dark Looking to run about 100W.

TIA

--tm

WD4AON




For an inexpensive flagpole setup, see http://force12inc.com/

Bob
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Looking for suggestions for flagpole design for Florida Mobile Home Park
where flagpole OK, antennas not OK. Thought of the Diamond shaped flagpole
configuration as a (CAP) top-loaded vertical. Anybody tried this? Note, my
ground is probably terrible, and as a stealth antenna, radial (maybe 2) must
be installed after dark Looking to run about 100W.

TIA

How about a "Gotham" vertical. This was about 20 ft. of vertical radiator,
mounted on an insulator (often, the pipe was just placed on top of a coke
bottle). A coil connected from the bottom of the radiator to ground (either a
simple ground rod, or better with several radials). A tap was used to bring
the coil/radiator to resonance. Another tap was used near the ground end of
the coil to find about 50 ohms of match for the coax.

The last version of this antenna that I used was constructed from a flagpole
bought at Sears.

--Wayne