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Subject: [SECC] Simple Antenna for 6 Meters that Works
From: aa4lr at arrl.net (Bill Coleman)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:06:00 -0400
On Jun 12, 2006, at 10:16 PM, K4SAV wrote:

> Over flat ground I will agree with you, and for MOST other locations I
> would also agree, but there are locations with sloping ground where it
> is easy to get an antenna too high.  It is these locations where a  
> stack
> may show little or no benefit over a single antenna.

Why not just put one antenna lower? Seems like it is easier to put up  
low antennas than high ones....

The late W4AN had a long 15m monobander at about 35 feet on the top  
of his mountain. It was really killer.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901


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