Patrick - what sort of antenna(e) are you putting up that covers 6m-80m?
That sounds like what I need!
Thanks,
Matt
KK4CPS
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
wrote:
> Jim, Thanks for the link. I have saved the presentation so I can revue it
> as desired. A bit late to impact my next project as the tower is on order
> and the antenna is on the shop floor in 4 boxes. The good news (whew!) I
> don't think I am in violation of any of the things you pointed out. The
> tower is a Tashjian DX-70 and the antenna is a 6m-80m Yagi. Well, the 80m
> is a dipole but the rest is a Yagi.
>
> Thanks again for sharing.
>
> Patrick NJ5G
>
> On 7/27/2015 11:53 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
>
>> On Mon,7/27/2015 6:31 AM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
>>
>>> I don't do many A-B comparisons between the OCF dipole and the vertical
>>> anymore, having seen the results so many times before. Rarely does the
>>> dipole win a shootout by much margin. results are close but the vertical
>>> usually does a little better. One solid exception is contacting a friend
>>> 120 air miles away. Sorry, senior moment (CRS), I don't recall the band
>>> but the OCF worked him well and the vertical was useless. We chalked it up
>>> to takeoff angle. This result is repeatable.
>>>
>>
>> Not surprising. See http://k9yc.com/VertOrHorizontal-Slides.pdf
>>
>> The problem with OCF dipoles is that you can't choke them to kill the RX
>> noise.
>>
>> 73, Jim
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