Good Afternoon Guys,
I was pondering the logistics of raising a tower in the midst of the "bog" in
my back yard, when it dawned on me that I have some nice, strategically spaced
trees to the east of my already erected 75' high inverted "L" at the front
yard...
I paced the distance 'twixt the two, & it's right on 1/4-wavelength for 160...I
then checked the radiation/gain patterns for phased verticals in the 1st
edition of ON4UN's book, & I was amazed to see that a 1/4-wave spaced array
with 135-degree phasing can yield (in theory) up to 4.9 db. gain! That's the
ticket for me...
A line has already been cast over an appropriate limb --- it remains for me to
lace a wire through it now, & make ready for the ground radial laying "party"
in late October, after the last of the grass on the lawn has been "harvested".
I sure would like to do something with the bog out back, though...my son has
been building an elevated mountain bike trail over it, & that's about as much
use as anyone has gotten out of it.
Also pondering the logistics of making a rotatable K9AY loop --- an excuse to
put an old CDR Ar-44 rotator that I have here to work, I guess!
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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