Morgan,
Very interesting report regarding your FD activities.
I have - although I do not use any more a Moxton Rectangle called a
“Cobweb” after Steve Cobb who designed and built it.
My experiences over the past 10 years with it has been
Positive points
a) It Works
b) Tunes well
c) Simple - to Install and Repair
d) Low Weight yielding great survivability
e) Relatively Omni directional
Give it a go - I am 100% sure it will work for you.
regards
Tim - A45WG
> On 28 Jun 2016, at 19:25, Morgan Bailey <mbaileyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Kaw Valley ARC in Topeka, Kansas has been doing field day for many
> years. It has run hot and cold. With the sun spot cycle heading in to the
> dumpster, 40 and 80 and possibly 160 will be the money bands for operation.
> This year my son, NS0R and I, NJ8M, worked, planned, built antennas and our
> club bought a set of band pass filters for 20 15 and 10. These were the new
> DX Engineering ones. They used a Triplexer and associated filters for the
> tribander. 2 dipoles one for 80 and one for 40 were set up for the club
> phone stations. They ran 2 stations there. Their radios are Icom 7000s.
> Most of our phone ops are not used to non arm chair copy and had GREAT
> difficulty listening through the QRM.
>
> This year we had a goal of 3000 qso's. bummer that we did not quite make
> it, 2701. Well there is always next year.
>
> The CW station that we operated was with one K3 and a K3S. Simple 6btv, 20
> meter half square and 3 element 40 meter vertical array. With those
> antennas we were able to work 1600 cw Qs and about 200 ssb Qs. The K3/S
> performed well. No hitch or glitch. We had fun, now back to the drawing
> board for next years antennas. We are thinking about moxon for 20 meters
> and keeping the 40 meter array and then putting up a 53 ft vertical with a
> 9:1 unun to a remote latching relay tuner for 80 and etc instead of the
> 6btv.
>
> We have not wanted to get into the tower stuff but the phone guys, AKA, the
> rest of the club, put up the tower for ssb and made less then 300 Qs on 20,
> it is just a waste.
>
> We have found out that simpler antennas are best.
>
> I Was wondering if any one has much experience with a moxon beam antenna?
>
> Very 73,
>
> Morgan Bailey NJ8M
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