- 1. Topband: small antennas (score: 1)
- Author: DAVID CUTHBERT <telegrapher9@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:45:03 -0700
- How many of you operate topband with small antennas? Perhaps we can get a dialog going on how to do this successfully. I presently use a 22' top loaded vertical that will soon grow to 33'. For contes
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00338.html (6,594 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: small antennas (score: 1)
- Author: "George \(K8GG\) & Marijke Guerin" <gmguerin@voyager.net>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:04:33 -0500
- David, WX7G asked: David, et. al., I would top load whatever vertical you can erect. Toploading a 33 foot mast will be about 3 times as effective as bottom loading the mast. If you cannot run out eno
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00339.html (8,291 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: small antennas (score: 1)
- Author: wa5pok@peoplepc.com
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:32:49 -0600
- Hi Dave, When I first visited the top band to see what it would be like, I built the "UG" antenna described in the Vertical Antenna Handbook by Paul Lee, N6PL. With this small antenna, 25' high, I w
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00340.html (7,284 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: small antennas (score: 1)
- Author: RTTYMAN@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:53:36 EST
- Hi Dave, et al. I operate very little on 160, but always try to dabble a bit in the contest. My antenna for the last contest was a Sloper that covers 30, 40, 80, & 160 ... with the feed point at abou
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00341.html (8,055 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: small antennas (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:39:01 -0800
- That's really the key to it. Very little discussion of small antennas is really needed. The principles and the practice agree quite well. More is better. Period. More height, more top loading, more c
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00342.html (7,832 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: small antennas (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@doctorgary.net>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:01:42 -0500
- I did at one time though my Inv L today seems like it's a dwarf among the contesting giants. I was in a condo with all the restrictions you might expect. I did put some upper band antennae tacked to
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00345.html (9,039 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: small antennas (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:49:47 -1000
- In fact, as you add radials reducing the ground loss resistance and increasing the efficiency, the SWR will increase, assuming 50 ohm coax with no matching network at the base. DE N6KB ______________
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-02/msg00000.html (6,893 bytes)
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