Unfortunately my crankup is maxxed out with 15/20/40M yagis. I guess when
I put it up 6 years ago I thought the sunspots would never come back (I
read that in an article on the internet), so I didn't put up anything for
10M.... I've got 31 sq ft of yagis on a 30 sq ft rated tower....
I do not have XYL/neighbor approval or $$$ for a second tower, so for the
CQWWCW last weekend I put a ZeroFive 5/8 wavelength 10M vertical on a 6'
pole and set it up groundplane style with 24 down sloping radials off of
a Lance Johnson Engineering round radial plate. It worked very well, way
past my expectations. And it is the perfect XYL antenna - this morning
I took the antenna off of the pole, slid the radial plate to the ground
and it was gone!
Would it be worth putting 2,3 or 4 phased verticals like this on 10M? I
have had 40m and 80M 4-squares in the past and of course they were great.
There are commercial boxes available. Do the patterns hold up on 10M?
Thanks for any input !!!
Bill KO7AA in Tucson, AZ
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