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> 1. Re: Question (Chuck Sudds)
> 2. Any 17/12-Meter Vertical Antenna available?
> (larryjspammenot@teleport.com)
> 3. Re: Question (Cqtestk4xs@aol.com)
> 4. Re: Any 17/12-Meter Vertical Antenna available?
> (Herbert Schoenbohm)
> 5. Kraus's book "Antennas" is available for free at archive.org
> (Jim Lux)
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> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 08:55:40 -0600
> From: Chuck Sudds <chuck@dxham.net>
> To: Arnie Pfingst <arnie123@hotmail.com>, towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Question
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> On 11/18/2015 10:21 PM, Arnie Pfingst wrote:
> Arnie!
> Have you ever thought about just loading up your Explorer 14 beam
> on 6 meters just to give it a try? Many years ago a friend called me &
> told me that 6 meters was "open" to JA land so I loaded up my 20 meter
> monobander and worked several JA's. Got me hooked on 6 meters again
> and
> have been active ever since. If you decide to put that dipole up,
> definitely go with the quarter wave version.
> See you on 6. BTW, the winter E-Season is about on us NOW! Have fun.
> 73,
> Chuck K?TVD
> www.dxham.net
> > I've been licensed for over 40 yrs, and in all that time I've never
> > been on 6m! I'm thinking about hanging a 6m dipole off of my tower.
> > My math tells me that it should be about 10 feet long for a quarter
> > wave. (468?f in mhz) Would it be better if I put up a full wave
> > dipole, or is there a better idea? I don't particularly want a beam
> > on 6 because I probably would always be pointing in the wrong
> > direction! I have a ham III rotor, and an explorer 14 at 60 feet and
> > that is about all the rotor is rated for.
> ------------------------------
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 07:55:12 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
> From: "larryjspammenot@teleport.com" <larryj@teleport.com>
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Any 17/12-Meter Vertical Antenna available?
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> Does anyone know of a dual-band antenna that covers the 17 and
> 12-Meter bands? I know there are many multi-band antenna versions
> available - the Hy-Gain 12AVQ, the Hustler BTV series, and others. I
> have a Butternut HF-6V that I've added the 17 and 12-Meter kits to,
> but they just don't tune properly - this is a well-documented problem
> with this antenna.
> I'd be interested to know of a 17/12-Meter ONLY antenna that might be
> available. I also know of the Cushcraft WARC-bands 30/17/12M rotatable
> dipole, but I do already have good 30-Meter performance with the
> Butternut vertical. Maybe someone has modified a 12AVQ or a similar
> multiband vertical antenna into something that covers just 17 and
> 12-Meters? I'd like to have a separate vertical antenna for just those
> two bands.
> LJ
> ------------------------------
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:06:57 -0500
> From: Cqtestk4xs@aol.com
> To: TOWERTALK@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Question
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> You never know if that will work.
> My first QSO on 6 meters was a 5000 mile one.
> I had been a ham for almost 50 years and had never been on 6. In 2009
> while living in Hawaii I heard signals on 6 with my K3. I fired up my
> stack
> of KT36XAs found they had a 1.3:1 on 6, so I tried a CW CQ and was
> rewarded
> with a W4 calling me. I then proceeded to work another 20 or so
> stations,
> all at least 3000 miles away.
> Any antenna is better than none!
> K4XS/KH7XS
> In a message dated 11/19/2015 2:56:02 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim,
> chuck@dxham.net writes:
> On 11/18/2015 10:21 PM, Arnie Pfingst wrote:
> Arnie!
> Have you ever thought about just loading up your Explorer 14 beam
> on 6 meters just to give it a try? Many years ago a friend called me &
> told me that 6 meters was "open" to JA land so I loaded up my 20 meter
> monobander and worked several JA's. Got me hooked on 6 meters again
> and
> have been active ever since. If you decide to put that dipole up,
> definitely go with the quarter wave version.
> See you on 6. BTW, the winter E-Season is about on us NOW! Have fun.
> 73,
> Chuck K?TVD
> www.dxham.net
> > I've been licensed for over 40 yrs, and in all that time I've never
> > been
> on 6m! I'm thinking about hanging a 6m dipole off of my tower. My math
> tells me that it should be about 10 feet long for a quarter wave.
> (468?f in
> mhz) Would it be better if I put up a full wave dipole, or is there a
> better
> idea? I don't particularly want a beam on 6 because I probably would
> always
> be pointing in the wrong direction! I have a ham III rotor, and an
> explorer 14 at 60 feet and that is about all the rotor is rated for.
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> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:18:25 -0400
> From: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com>
> To: "larryjspammenot@teleport.com" <larryj@teleport.com>
> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Any 17/12-Meter Vertical Antenna available?
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> I have a Titan Gap vertical which covers 80-10 with the WARC band w/o
> radials that I would be will to ship dismantle and ship via via USPS
> for give away price of $50.
> Herb KV4FZ
> On 11/19/2015 11:55 AM, larryjspammenot@teleport.com wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a dual-band antenna that covers the 17 and
> > 12-Meter bands? I know there are many multi-band antenna versions
> > available - the Hy-Gain 12AVQ, the Hustler BTV series, and others. I
> > have a Butternut HF-6V that I've added the 17 and 12-Meter kits to,
> > but they just don't tune properly - this is a well-documented
> > problem with this antenna.
> >
> > I'd be interested to know of a 17/12-Meter ONLY antenna that might
> > be available. I also know of the Cushcraft WARC-bands 30/17/12M
> > rotatable dipole, but I do already have good 30-Meter performance
> > with the Butternut vertical. Maybe someone has modified a 12AVQ or a
> > similar multiband vertical antenna into something that covers just
> > 17 and 12-Meters? I'd like to have a separate vertical antenna for
> > just those two bands.
> >
> > LJ
> >
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> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 08:38:03 -0800
> From: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
> To: towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Kraus's book "Antennas" is available for free at
> archive.org
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> 2nd edition, which is fine for most uses..
> One of the best antenna textbooks out there, in my not so humble
> opinion. Any text which has pictures of the author standing in the
> backyard in front of antennas he/she built is a good one.
> It has all the the theory and the math, but is accessible without it,
> and doesn't require you to derive everything from Maxwell's equations
> to
> understand it.
> Anyone building HF antennas, and in particular, using modeling tools,
> needs this book or an equivalent.. Balanis is the other famous text,
> but
> I find he's a more "start with the theory and see what happens", while
> Kraus is a "here's what happens, let's figure out why" sort of
> approach.
> https://archive.org/details/Antennas2ndbyjohnD.Kraus1988
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