Do it all the time, it's called a FAN Dipole. You do have to remember though, each wire interacts with the others, so tuning is a bit tricky, however, a good transmatch eliminates that issue. I curre
Actually, on this same vein, I've always wondered what would happen if you were to feed two identical dipoles with the same feedline. Say North+West Legs on the braid, and South+East legs on the cent
So tonight, while attempting to pound a 54 inch piece of Galvanized pipe into the ground, I hit something that felt like rock.. Upon digging down with a post hole digger, I discovered someone had bur
A Gap Titan might work well in that situation. 80-10 coverage, no radials, just a fixed counterpoise and basically, it's designed as a vertical dipole.. Ground mounted, I've never been a huge fan of
18 Square Feet is the max windload for 130 feet of Rohn 45 and the normal 3 sets of guys. I've always heard you don't add a 4th set of guys due to something about compressing the base too much. The w
Back in the old days, I read and heard about the guys feeding their antennas with hardline by putting equal lengts of 50 Ohm cable on each end. So, you have 5 feet of 213, 200 feet of hardline, 5 fee
Don't see any that work on 2M, but was quite surprised to learn that Array Solutions sells several products for HF that do just this. http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/baluns.htm At one time the
The easiest way to calculate height for me, is to draw it out to scale on graph paper and use a ruler. Dave Tipton Office 940.239.7368 Mobile 214.690.2512 Sent from my iPhone ________________________
I'm looking for ideas for an antenna that could be used on 75M with reasonable results, can be mounted in an attic of a small townhouse. I'm guessing total dimensions won't be more than 40 x 20 with
Anyone in the Boulder area (within 20 or 30 miles thereof) got a small house or townhouse they'd like to rent to a nice employed IT Guy working at IBM? Would prefer it to be ham radio friendly. J I b
I concur. Last year, I was at a Hamfest in Oklahoma City and sat down with him and ordered a dozen "Jumpers". He had them to me in less than a week. I paid a couple hundred bucks for them, but they a
So, Yesterday, I finally got around to installing a dual bander in my 1 month old truck, and was testing it out on some of the local repeaters. I'm TDY in Sacramento, CA for about a year or so, worki
I have a 40 foot Rohn 25, with a tilt base section. It will be sitting next to a detached framed (not block) garage with siding. I can attach a winch to an extra guy bracket I have at the ten foot le
If I understand what you are saying, roughly (40x4)+(4x50) = 360 lbs That is actually less than I anticipated. Your concern about the wall, is however a shared one. Thinking an internal guy running a
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So, first off, thanks everyone for the repliers. I intend to use a 3000 lb winch, and I did like the idea about sistering in some extra 2x4's. (I was already looking at doing that, and potentially cr