Author: N6KI Dennis Vernacchia <n6ki_73@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:21:58 -0800
A ham friend in coastal southern California area who is setting up a station with a 50 ft towr and 10 ft mast wants to put a 40 mtr rotatable dipole at top of mast at 60 ft level ) Budget and tower l
Dennis: Your friend can take a look for the DIS-71 from hygain, the dipole can be configured to be used with a pair of relays to have 30m W8DX write an article how to do it this dipole is less than 3
If the end elements (reflector and last director) are grounded to the boom, a large tribander BOOM makes an excellent rotatable 40 meter dipole. Here's how I do it: http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/pix/40boom
Kirk et al: Thanks for the pix. I do have one item to add, though. I have a Bencher Skyhawk Yagi on which I have grounded all the parasitic elements to the boom, to use as a capacitive top hat for my