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April 1st 06, 01:58 AM
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I've got a Butternut vertical HF6V and have plans to place it up on the
roof. I've had it ground mounted (worked super) but due to family uses for the yard will have to move it up and out of the way. Rather than laying down 20 pieces of wire on my roof for radials (insulated with the tips protected) I'd like to try and build a Butternut "No radials required with the optional CPK Counterpoise kit" but I'm having difficulty finding the specs. Has anyone ever built one or have the measurements for a general purpose counterpoise kit? Thanks. John john_stlmo at yahoo dot com |
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April 1st 06, 03:08 AM
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"John" wrote in message ... I've got a Butternut vertical HF6V and have plans to place it up on the roof. I've had it ground mounted (worked super) but due to family uses for the yard will have to move it up and out of the way. Rather than laying down 20 pieces of wire on my roof for radials (insulated with the tips protected) I'd like to try and build a Butternut "No radials required with the optional CPK Counterpoise kit" but I'm having difficulty finding the specs. Has anyone ever built one or have the measurements for a general purpose counterpoise kit? Just run the radials... it will take around 550ft of wire.... I have my 5BTV on the roof with 20 radials... the 75 meter radials are guyed out to trees. It works very much good. :-) -n6ojn |
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April 1st 06, 03:21 AM
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"John" wrote in message ... I've got a Butternut vertical HF6V and have plans to place it up on the roof. I've had it ground mounted (worked super) but due to family uses for the yard will have to move it up and out of the way. Rather than laying down 20 pieces of wire on my roof for radials (insulated with the tips protected) I'd like to try and build a Butternut "No radials required with the optional CPK Counterpoise kit" but I'm having difficulty finding the specs. Has anyone ever built one or have the measurements for a general purpose counterpoise kit? Thanks. John john_stlmo at yahoo dot com Bencher has the instructions on their site: http://www.bencher.com/pdfs/00236IZV.pdf The spreaders are 5.5' and the wire is 8'3" on a side. |
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April 1st 06, 04:09 PM
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Thanks for the info - looks like it might be fun to try and build one...
I'm sure a lot of vertical users would find something like that very handy... Kind of reminds me of the CB antennas I see with their ground plane kits except for the wire... John "Glenn" wrote in message news:aslXf.4554$C85.4317@dukeread10... "John" wrote in message ... I've got a Butternut vertical HF6V and have plans to place it up on the roof. I've had it ground mounted (worked super) but due to family uses for the yard will have to move it up and out of the way. Rather than laying down 20 pieces of wire on my roof for radials (insulated with the tips protected) I'd like to try and build a Butternut "No radials required with the optional CPK Counterpoise kit" but I'm having difficulty finding the specs. Has anyone ever built one or have the measurements for a general purpose counterpoise kit? Thanks. John john_stlmo at yahoo dot com Bencher has the instructions on their site: http://www.bencher.com/pdfs/00236IZV.pdf The spreaders are 5.5' and the wire is 8'3" on a side. |
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