[600MRG] Antennas....

[David J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Ken,

I'm making a test for you.
This email is going just to the reflector!

Do you get it?

73
David N1EA


On 01/18/2018 07:03 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2018 at 18:53, David J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> 
>> Ken,
>>
>> Can't you put three "guys" at the top of the vertical and insulate them
>> a third of the way down?
> 
> Well......I'd have to make those out of very small wire. The top 22 feet of my vertical is made 
> of aluminum tubing which is about 3/4" in diameter, with an even smaller, short section of 
> 1/2" rod at the top. As I said, this thing is what amounts to a big mobile whip.
> 
>>  You would get rid of much of the lossy loading
>> coil.  I'm a big fan of both "Inverted L" and "Marconi T" antennas, the
>> first has both high angle and low angle radiation while the Marconi T
>> (which is just a double inverted L) has cancellation of the high angle
>> radiation because of the other part of the "T".
> 
> Yes. I'd like to do that, but at this point I can't see how I can.
> 
>> I had some "hardware cloth" that I put on the ground for my 50 foot
>> vertical.
> 
> All of my radials are #14 stranded THHN wire.
> 
> BTW, I am still not receiving e-mails directly from my forum. The IP address is being 
> blocked by Yahoo's e-mail service. I tried to subscribe myself at my arrl.net address, and 
> even that is being blocked.
> 
> I'm working on this, but am getting more than a little ticked off.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
> 
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