On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Peter Klein <pklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Right, Moose. Paul, it works for 7-28 MHz as an inverted vee, and also
> on 3.5 MHz with the feedline shorted together so it works as a short
> vertical with a capacitive top hat. Each leg is 82 feet long. To
> paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, each leg is long enough to not quite reach
> the ground.
>
> It's fed with foam-insulated outdoor 300 ohm twinlead rather than coax,
> so with a manual tuner, I can resonate the system to many bands. I like
> the 300 ohm twinlead becase it doesn't break as easily as ladder line,
> is easier to get into the house, and works better on the high bands.
>
> --Peter (aka KD7MW)
>
>
This is the one thing I really, really miss about growing up on a farm. I
had a 100' tower and not only did I have a couple of stacked monoband yagis
that I built for 10 and 15, but I had several inverted vee's hanging off of
it for 40 and 80 as well. What I miss most is having the space to do
that. I'm really hoping that I can convince the homeowners' board (I'm
president, but I still need to convince the rest) to let me hang a dipole
between the 2nd-story roofs of the condos on either side of ours. Every
stealth, compromised antenna design I've looked at is either really
expensive, or won't fit into our configuration.
--
Paul Braun
Certified Music Junkie
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Berthold Auerbach
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