Hi Jeff and thanks for the info,
Yep, I have looked at the 80m dipole with EZNEC an all of the bands.
I left it up for SS primarily because the of the 40m and 80m
pattern. At my QTH in Virginia I used one as a sloper, coming down a
60foot hill, sloping to the NE/NW, that had 110 foot tall maple
trees on top of the hill. 15m into JA was especially awsome. The one
here is basically flat but I really didn't expect the good
performance I'm getting with it.
My second antenna is going to be a two-element double-extended-zepp.
EZNEC says it gives a 33 degree beamwidth (gotta point it VERY
carefully!) with 14.5 dBi gain, if it's at 60' height.
'Course pumping 1500 watts into open wire feeders, doesn't hurt
either!!
Tom - W4BQF
----- Original Message -----
From: <ku8e@bellsouth.net>
To: "Tommy" <aldermant@alltel.net>; <SECC@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [SECC] K4OGG, CWSS
> 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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