i made one of these but a three element model, worked ok, but my regular
inverted v on eighty worked dx best, i took down the wire beam after a year
of testing, i have 6 towers and 30 antennas ....w5kuf
Alfred J. Frugoli wrote:
> I'm looking into putting up a 2 element 80M beam using a rope boom and
> inverted v elements. The antenna site is on a hill that drops off
> rather sharply towards Eu (the direction the beam will be pointed) the
> support at one end is 70 feet high, and the support at the other end
> will be very close to ground level, but only 40 or so feet lower than
> the other support. I'm planning to put the DE at 70' (which will look
> like 80-90 to the antenna due to a sharp drop off near the tower), and
> then a Ref spaced approprately behind the DE, so it would be at 30-50
> feet above ground.
>
> Will this design do me any good being so low? Will it have a descnet
> pattern? Any advantage over the inverted V I"ve got now? Should I skip
> it and start saving up for a 4 square? By the way, the antenna will be
> used mainly for contesting.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Al, KE1FO
>
> Has anybody modelled what a tilted "boom" like this will do to the
> antenna pattern?
>
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