I understand that which is why in my original post I said, "Works much DX on
all bands whenever I
try Peter I Island, Kiribati, etc., though I use other antennas on bands
other than 40 cut appropriately." Perhaps, you missed that? Theory
granted, you're also make a case against success. It works. Though as you
suggest, with handicaps.


"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Jozef wrote:
I took scrap pieces of aluminum tubing lying around, not being
particularly careful of sizes as along they fit snugly into adjacent
pieces when they were slotted. I used hose clamps. I made it 33ft and 3
inches tall (1/4 wave on 40)... The Palstar has no problem
matching this vertical on all bands 40 through 6 meters including WARC
though 12 meters is the trickiest.

That antenna is 5/8 wavelength on ~17.5 MHz. Above 21 MHz,
most of the radiation is lost at a high elevation angle.
Such an antenna is a poor performer on 15m, 12m, 10m, and
6m. Matching doesn't mean much for a monopole appreciably
longer than 5/8 wavelength.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp