Years ago I cleared a 200 foot path in among some hard woods....Needed to
practice my high irons....

But Now...lets put up a monster antenna.. For high bands 17 - 20 meters.

In this path I've got two 120 foot towers in line with Europe. The towers
are 500 feet apart......Its pretty well open on the sides

I can easily run a cable between them and then
hang what...???

Give me your dream antenna...or your best shot!!!

Thanks,

Bill
http://www.kc4pe.com/amateurshack.htm

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 19:27:00 -0500, "Bill" wrote:



Years ago I cleared a 200 foot path in among some hard woods....Needed to
practice my high irons....

Don't we all? I've been using 21 and 24 degree rescue clubs keeping
the 3 thru 5 irons in the bag.
But Now...lets put up a monster antenna.. For high bands 17 - 20 meters.

In this path I've got two 120 foot towers in line with Europe. The towers
are 500 feet apart......Its pretty well open on the sides

I can easily run a cable between them and then
hang what...???

Give me your dream antenna...or your best shot!!!

I would go with a simple 'Loop Skywire' in the vertical plane. A
200x100 foot loop is well over a full-wave at 160M so with a balanced
matching device it will be an all-band antenna. I have a 500 foot
horizontal loop that provides absolutely amazing performance so I may
be a little biased g.

I would also consider a four bay 40M or a ten bay 20M Sterba curtain.
A bobtail curtain is another possibility.

73 de n4jvp
Fritz

Years ago I cleared a 200 foot path in among some hard woods....
In this path I've got two 120 foot towers in line with Europe. The
towers are 500 feet apart......Its pretty well open on the sides
....[snip]....

If those two towers are truly IN LINE with Europe, won't 'most any
antenna you hang BETWEEN them (i.e., from one tower to another, like
a Sterba or several half-squares) radiate 90 degrees AWAY from Europe?

To make an antenna that radiates TOWARD Europe, you could make a "wire
beam" by using a rope or wire strung between the towers as a "boom",
create "elements" by throwing several essentially-half-wavelength-long
inverted-V's ACROSS that "boom" spaced some fraction of a wavelength
apart, use the "element" farthest from Europe as a "reflector", feed
the next one, and use the others as directors. Ergo sum, a humongous
beam "in line" with Europe!
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Years ago I cleared a 200 foot path in among some hard woods....Needed to
practice my high irons....


I dunno, it might be time to consider spending the bucks and seeing a Pro.

Good luck and hit 'em straight.

Bill wrote:
Years ago I cleared a 200 foot path in among some hard woods....Needed to
practice my high irons....

But Now...lets put up a monster antenna.. For high bands 17 - 20 meters.

In this path I've got two 120 foot towers in line with Europe. The towers
are 500 feet apart......Its pretty well open on the sides

I can easily run a cable between them and then
hang what...???

Give me your dream antenna...or your best shot!!!

Thanks,

Bill
http://www.kc4pe.com/amateurshack.htm

Hi Bill, I would go with a wire Log Periodic. There was a series of
articles in Ham Radio Mag. back in the 70's and 80's describing logs
that were made of wire hung from towers. Logs have some gain, and are
frequency independent to an extent. You could construct a Log that
would cover 20-15 meters, and have some (3db?) gain. May 1974 issue of
Ham Radio had such an antenna.
Other options are the various end-fire and broad-side arrays, you
could get more gain, but gain-bandwidth would be limited.
I wish I had your problem:-)
Gary N4AST