Hi Everybody,
I finally have a few seconds (after realizing that a stupid mistake I made an
Wedneesday, may have permanenttly trashed the KLM Echo 70, I've been having
problems with) to consider quick and dirty gain wire antennas for 6m I can set
up on the balcony of my apartment (I'll operate portable from there rather than
running back and forth to the balcony to rotate the 2m/432 log periodic), with
the limited materials I have on hand. I originally wanted to try something a
little less run of the mill - a Bruce array. It's easy to set up, and has gain.
But I checked the file I have on them, and they're a broadside array, that
basically work vertically polarized. Blast! That's fine and dandy when E-skip
is happening, but when 6 gets dead, it's hard enough to work other stations via
troposcatter (much more so than on 2 or 432 in my experience), without having
to deal with 20-30 dB of cross polarization losses. So far, it's looking like
Extended Double Zepp time, in spite of the fact that
those work best with balanced feedlines (and no, I don't have a balun). This
looks like a compromise antenna to me. It has gain over a doploe of full wave
loop, but I'd like to try something better. Does anybody have any ideas?
73,
Ellen - AF9J
Grid EN52xx
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