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Re: Topband: Quarter wave sloper ?

To: "jim.thom jim.thom@telus.net" <jim.thom@telus.net>, <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Quarter wave sloper ?
From: Gene Smar via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Gene Smar <ersmar@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 20:35:24 +0000 (UTC)
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Not exactly, but close. I installed an 80M 1/4 wave sloper (a/k/a half-sloper) 
wire off my 64 foot tower at 50 feet. Above the wire at 66 feet is a  Bencher 
Skyhawk tribander where I shorted all the parasitic elements to the boom for 
extra top-hat loading. The sloper seems to be pretty broadbanded and I can work 
into the Canadian maritime provinces and UK and western Europe pretty regularly 
from Maryland with 100 Watts.
FWIW.
73 de Gene Smar AD3F 

Sent from my Radio Shack TRS-80 model 100 laptop 
 
  On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM, jim.thom 
jim.thom@telus.net<jim.thom@telus.net> wrote:   Has anyone had success with a 
160m,  1/4 wave sloper....hanging off a 90'
tower, with a 40m yagi just above the top of the tower ?
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