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December 7th 03, 07:53 PM
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"Fjx1" wrote in message ... I can't run wires on my property( no trees and tower rotates). I've used a ^btv for years with usual weak results on 80. LAways thought Butternut was weakly made. What is recommendation out there? Butternut Gap Force sigma for 80 know very little about it they don't answer e-mails MFK ??? other ideas Really want 80 and 160 would be great bonus. 73 Gerry If there are no trees for support, and you say you have a rotating tower, do you have room for a couple of poles or stakes........say, 10-12 feet high? I know it would be somewhat "unsightly" (beauty is in the eye of the beholder), but an inverted Vee would do pretty well on 75. I had a 75 dipole at one of my prior residences that drooped down to 10' and it worked better than I expected. So if you could droop a V down off the tower (the whole thing doesn't turn does it?) it would work. There are also some ways you can make a loaded vertical to hang under a tree/tower--saw that in QST a few years back. A bit of experimenting, but a good project which, according to the author, got some pretty good results. Sloper off the tower? And then you could put a screwdriver at the top to work all bands and put radials underneath--saw that method, again, in one of the ham rags where a series of wires of different lengths were positioned in a circle like a bird cage with a home- brew vertical at top. Lots of ideas. I don't know how they work (haven't had to try it). If you get out and "putter" with it, you'll come up with something. Now if you need a help with a screwdriver, just let me know (www.qsl.net/k4kwh) . 73 Jerry K4KWH |
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