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Subject: Salty Dog - 2 x 2 80 M Antenna tests
Author: ALAN KAUL <alan.kaul@worldnet.att.net>
Date: 11-Jan-2001 03:13:20
Rather impressive.... but on my city lot I don't have room for a 2 x 2 array. I
have a single vertical now (HF2V) and it works well on 80-M. But I've been
thinking about adding a second 80M vertical.... and the linear loading F12 looks
like a winning antenna. Most of the literature, Devoldere, et al, suggest using
two verticals in phase/out of phase but I have not seen anthing in the
literature to suggest two verticals -- one driven and one parasitic as reflector
or director. Does anyone on this list have experience with such an arrangement
on 80M?

Also, it seems to me, if you use a Driver/Reflector arrangement, then it won't
matter if the two verticals are dissimilar brands/styles, etc.... as long as one
resonates on transmit frequency and the other is perhaps 5% longer and spaced
approx 1/8th wave behind the driven element. Is this a good assumption or bad?
And why??

Alan Kaul, W6RCL, LaCanada, CA
w6rcl@amsat.org , http://home.att.net/~alan.kaul/index.html



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