In my situation, the tower comes out about 1/2 way up a peaked roof made of the curved red clay tiles. The building is about 100 years old.
I intended to feed it with coax & use an antenna tuner. This will be for a frequency agile transceiver on 29 Mhz FM, which I want to favor the west. I can tie the lower end of the sloper to a fire escape below. ------ Original Message ------ Received: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:05:51 PM CST From: "John Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: SLOPER > I have used the very same setup you want to build and it works well. > It seems to have some directivity, (as it should) and a fairly low > angle of radiation. The one I built worked every bit as well as the > Shakespeare Super Big Stick that I was using on 29.100. If nothing > else, its cheap and almost invisible with nearly zero wind load. > > My setup had no balun, just a coaxial choke of 5-6 turns about 8" > diameter at the feed. That choke was not given any thought or > engineering, I just thought it sounded like a good idea. Please, no e- > mails telling me that the choke would never work like that. ;-) I fed > the thing with RG-8X and put about 450 watts into it with no trouble. > > 73 de John ab6li > >
