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Re: My Buddys Antennas
Nice setup.
Wish my neighborhood didn't have all the covenants that they do.
Wish my neighborhood didn't have all the covenants that they do.
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Re: My Buddys Antennas
That ground plane antenna "outperforming" a three element beam? I don't think so. Now, you did say a three element beam on the flat side...but that isn't a fair comparison. If he was using the beam to talk to someone else who was vertically polarized, then there is a 20dB cross polarization attenuation. If the beam were vertically polarized, it would easily outperform the ground plane because it has the advantage of concentrating all the signal in one direction, giving it more gain.
The big antenna...that looks like a Hy-Gain Hy-Tower. And, yes, the entire length of it is used for the 75 meter band and only the 75 meter band. The stubs that are attached to the sides of the antenna are for the other bands. Does he have ground radials attached to it? If not, he's wasting a lot of power just heating up the ground. If it were me, I would have mounted it further away from the house for better low band use...but maybe he isn't licensed and so doesn't use it on those bands.
The big antenna...that looks like a Hy-Gain Hy-Tower. And, yes, the entire length of it is used for the 75 meter band and only the 75 meter band. The stubs that are attached to the sides of the antenna are for the other bands. Does he have ground radials attached to it? If not, he's wasting a lot of power just heating up the ground. If it were me, I would have mounted it further away from the house for better low band use...but maybe he isn't licensed and so doesn't use it on those bands.
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Yaesu FT-8100
Icom IC-2820 (with D-Star capability)
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Uniden Washington Base
Uniden HR-2510
Icom ID-92 HT
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OCF 75/80M dipole
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Re: My Buddys Antennas
I believe your friend is the same guy I spoke to via skip a month or two ago a couple of QSO exchanges. "4040 by the dock of the bay working this old (blackface?) Johnson" or very close to that and was working him from up here in the Northeast Corner in New Jersey. Fine sounding station if it is the one and the same gentleman. That looks like Jays I-10K up there is that correct? If it is I think that same one is going to be my next vertical.
