Let's see, a dipole that's a 1/4 wave above ground. That should be a real
cloud warmer, errr.. I mean barn-burner. Now if you had that antenna at
a 1/2 wave (and could keep it up) you would really have something to talk
about.
73 Rick, N6ND
At 10:02 AM 7/16/97 -0400, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
>Howdy, TowerTalkians --
>
> Just put a Force 12 180C rotary dipole up for N7OS this weekend. It's
>the biggest one and gives the most bandwidth. It's BIG - 83 feet long!
>
> It's on a 72 foot crankup in a residential neighborhood in an okay
>location. The owner was apprehensive about it as we had some initial tuning
>problems. After getting it working, we went in to the shack to check it out.
>His first contact was Antarctica - EM1HO! (I think that was the call.) The
>next night he worked an I2 station - EU from the Pacific NW in the middle of
>summer! Needless to say, he's plenty happy with it now.
>
> Just thought you'd like to know.
>
>73, Steve K7LXC
>
Rick Craig, N6ND
n6nd@n6nd.wanet.com
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