On 10/9/2012 8:55 AM, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
Last winter I had struggled some with a pennant.
Over the past weekend I strung up "half of" a K9AY in the treeline on the edge
of my property (trees as supports). It's half in the sense that it's a diamond in the
NE/SW plane but I don't have a NW/SW plane. It works wonderfully... I can remotely point
it NE or SW, and get circa 15 to 20 dB rejection off the back as verified with real 160M
listening over the weekend. Didn't hear much DX - maybe I could convince myself I could
hear RI1ANF last night on 160M by ESP! But I heard G's and EA's and DL's in Europe
calling for RI1ANF and verified that they come in from the NE but not the SW. Locations
to my NW (e.g. Michigan), I didn't hear much difference between the two directions.
That's a great start, but if I wanted to set up the "other half" of the K9AY on
a different property edge treeline, and get the perpendicular directions (NW and SE), can
I use the same coax and switchbox? Maybe twisted pair to the perpendicular loops (maybe
50 feet away) Or should I use a second piece of coax to handle this other half-K9AY? Is
there a huge payoff in getting the perpendicular directions too, or is half a K9AY good
enough for a 160M receive antenna newbie like me?
Tim N3QE
Congratulations Tim:
I also started with a K9AY, and it was great! Go for the other half!
That will bring you Alaska & the JA's as well as the HL's etc. If you
haven't looked in the ON4UN Low band hand Book, there is info in there
for controlling both antennas with one controller.
With the K9AY & a lot of help from the members of this reflector, I
worked 39 new ones the first season I had the antennas up. Go for it,
and good DX.
73,
Mike, W5UC.
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