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Re: [TowerTalk] LPDA optimal height

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] LPDA optimal height
From: "StellarCAT" <rxdesign@ssvecnet.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:22:27 -0500
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yeah - on a 70' boom! That's something every ham has room for ... and the gain of a lowly (average) 3 element beam on each of them as well.

Gary
K9RX

-----Original Message----- From: Jim Thomson
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 12:15 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] LPDA optimal height

Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 07:23:58 -0500
From: "john@kk9a.com" <john@kk9a.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] LPDA optimal height

As you figured out, there is no perfect height. I would avoid going too
high where you create nulls at critical angles. My question is why do you
want to use a Log Periodic? I have never modeled one but they look to be
nothing more than multiple dipoles and they can have common mode current
if the coax is not properly routed around the hot boom. I used a small LP
once from the Caribbean and never felt loud.

John KK9A

##  Optibeam has now re-written the book on LPs.
http://optibeam.net/index.php?article_id=131&clang=1

http://optibeam.net/index.php?article_id=135&clang=1
This lp has stupid amounts of FB  on 5 bands.

For the OP,  75 ft would be a good compromise.

Jim  VE7RF

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