Re: Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna?

2014-12-24 Thread Paul Elliott
Jorge, I have a 160m antenna asymmetrical antenna, fed against ground, that goes from one corner of my 120 ft by 120 ft lot to the opposite corner. It is held up by a single pole, about 55 ft tall. The pole is closer to the fed end. The wire going up to the pole makes about a 65 degree ang

Re: Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna?

2014-12-24 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
On 12/24/2014 3:39 PM, Art Roberts - W5AER wrote: On the thought of a low dipole: Years ago in Northern California, as an experiment, I had a VERY low dipole and got some strange results. Listening to a local station, in the afternoon, there was very deep QSB. We were able to talk, but with di

Re: Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna?

2014-12-24 Thread Art Roberts - W5AER
On the thought of a low dipole: Years ago in Northern California, as an experiment, I had a VERY low dipole and got some strange results. Listening to a local station, in the afternoon, there was very deep QSB. We were able to talk, but with difficulty. 73, Art W5AER On 12/24/2014 4:53 PM

Re: Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna?

2014-12-24 Thread Jim Brown
On Wed,12/24/2014 1:05 PM, Jorge Diez CX6VM wrote: Half of one of the half go to the other side, like an inverted V That would be a pretty low dipole on 160M, and verticals tend to be far more effective on 160M than low dipoles. 73, Jim K9YC _ Topband Reflector Archives - htt

Re: Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna?

2014-12-24 Thread Jorge Diez CX6VM
Do a sloper (half WL) and feed in the center. Half of one of the half go to the other side, like an inverted V 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W Enviado desde mi iPhone > El 24/12/2014, a las 17:10, "James Wolf" escribió: > > I used to use a similar method on 80 meters. > Why not feed it (them) at the t

Re: Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna?

2014-12-24 Thread James Wolf
I used to use a similar method on 80 meters. Why not feed it (them) at the top? Jim - KR9U -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 1:46 PM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: 160m Slo

Re: Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna?

2014-12-24 Thread Jim Brown
On Wed,12/24/2014 10:29 AM, Ed via Topband wrote: Trying to figure out how to best utilize my 106' tower for 160m. The tower sits on a small hill so the downside of the tower is sloping. If I hang a wire off the top, I can bring the other end to the ground and feed it at the bottom. I can ra

Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna?

2014-12-24 Thread Ed via Topband
Trying to figure out how to best utilize my 106' tower for 160m. The tower sits on a small hill so the downside of the tower is sloping. If I hang a wire off the top, I can bring the other end to the ground and feed it at the bottom. I can ran numerous radials from there. This arrangement c

Re: Topband: BOG talk

2014-12-24 Thread k1fz
Wished I had some eggnog. May get some.  Meant to type impedance ratio. Thanks for correction ! . 73 'Bruce On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:25:39 -0500, kd9sv wrote:   Bruce, you been in the eggnog too early...you are giving impedance   transformation ratios and not winding ratios...de gary, k

Topband: BOG talk

2014-12-24 Thread k1fz
  Have had inquires about self termination of BOG antennas.  *It varies with the type of soil, moisture content, and length of the wire relative to the ground. Question #1 My BOG is directional, in the direction of the wire without a resistor, then why bother with one? Good Question- Un