Very fine, gents. Thanks. Much appreciated. More information:
I will be taking a vacation to Belize and will be there for the CQWW CW
contest. I will take a 100W radio with an external tuner. I will have two
40 foot spiderbeam telescoping fiberglass poles I will be able to attach to
piers over the calm ocean, and I would like to be able to make QSOs on all
bands. I should have no problem laying out maybe two radials for each band,
thinking something like 12 radials everywhere from a quarter wave on 160m to
a quarter wave on 10m. The longer radials might need to get folded around
or use other creative ideas.
I can make two antennas - or alternatively I can run different wires for
different bands up the same pole as long as they are chosen to not
particularly interact, and run separate feedlines. I will be using RG6 75
ohm coax.
I can smoketest them here at N5OT but not with the salt water component.
The tuner's specifications say it will tune 4 to 800 ohm loads.
I hope this helps focus the brainstorming.
Quick dumb question - This magic 43 foot vertical: That's just 43 feet of
vertical radiator fed against a ground system? Any additional loading? I
never paid attention to that conversation before. Bad me.
73 - Mark N5OT
----- Original Message -----
From: "WA8JXM" <wa8jxm@gmail.com>
To: <john@kk9a.comjohn@kk9a.com>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] verticlas used on multiple bands fed with a tuner
> You guys are talking apples and oranges:
>
> On Nov 14, 2011, at 5:04 PM, <john@kk9a.com> <john@kk9a.com> wrote:
>
>> The average vertical has very little low radiation angle, unless next to
>> salt water which fills in the pseudo Brewster angle. I think most of
>> the
>> time you are better off with a horizontal antenna .
>>
>> From: "Gene Fuller" <w2lu@rochester.rr.com>
>>
>> A GOOD vertical antenna is perhaps the easiest way to get the low
>> radiation
>> angle you would like for DX'ing.
>
>
> One of you is speaking about the "AVERAGE VERTICAL" and the other is
> speaking of a "GOOD VERTICAL":
>
> Those aren't the same things, guys!
>
> Ken
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