Tom,
If you are using a 130 foot antenna with open wire feeder....
On 80 meters it acts like a dipole
On 40 meters if is two half waves in phase broadside to the antenna giving you
about 3 db gain over a dipole
On 20 meters you have a clover leaf pattern.
On 15 meters you have about 8 lobes
On 10 meters you have a whole bunch of lobes !!!
If you can only put up one antenna this is the one. you could short the
feeders together and run it as a "T" on 160 and put down some radials. You
should get out good enough (running the amp) to be dangerous !!!
See http://www.cebik.com/88.html
73, Jeff
>
> From: "Tommy" <aldermant@alltel.net>
> Date: 2004/11/08 Mon AM 10:37:44 EST
> To: <SECC@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [SECC] K4OGG, CWSS
>
> My Titan 3 blew up, sitting in stand-by on the desk. Just got it
> back from Ten Tec on Thursday.
>
> When testing it, could only get 1200w max into the dummy load.
> Taking it apart and inspecting it, I found the same old problem of
> poor assembly. A screw from the tube section was protruding to the
> below compartment, partially shorting out the RF input line on a PC
> board. I went through this with Ten Tec back in November and found
> the problem after they told me "you must have a bad interface coax
> cable". Still an on-going problem with practically NO QC at Ten Tec.
>
> Anyway after replacing the screw, I still expected to have problems
> with the amp, but it just sat there, purring at 1500w.
>
> Was going to add an HF (20&15m) antenna, but the way this silly 80m
> dipole is working...WHY?
>
>
> Tom - W4BQF
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Macie, Gordon" <GMacie@innotrac.com>
> To: "'Jay Pryor'" <jpryor@uga.edu>; <SECC@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:13 AM
> Subject: RE: [SECC] K4OGG, CWSS
>
>
> > I ran my amp also. Strange experience people actually hearing me.
> I had very
> > few fills compared to what I'm use to.
> >
> > Gordon
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jay Pryor [mailto:jpryor@uga.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:05 AM
> > To: SECC@contesting.com
> > Subject: [SECC] K4OGG, CWSS
> >
> >
> > This was my first part-time CWSS in a long time. And the first
> time I have
> > ever entered any contest in the high power category. But there's
> no
> > question that my score is higher than it would have been
> > otherwise. Anyway, it took me a while to figure out how to hook
> up and
> > load up the amp. I really don't use it much. After I got it up
> and
> > running though I enjoyed a laid-back SS. It was good to run into
> many SECC
> > folks, and other contesters who are "regulars."
> >
> > Here's what it looked like:
> >
> > BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
> > __________________________________________________
> >
> > 80CW 64 64 128 30
> > 40CW 48 48 96 18
> > 20CW 103 103 206 14
> > 15CW 95 95 190 9
> > 10CW 12 12 24 1
> > __________________________________________________
> >
> > Totals 322 322 644 72
> >
> >
> > Final Score = 46368 points.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Jay/K4OGG
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