Re: [Elecraft] FW: Using your tower as a vertical - 160 or 80

2017-03-02 Thread Erik Basilier
Vic, thanks for your comments! Erik K7TV -Original Message- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2017 12:21 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FW: Using your tower as a vertical - 160 or 80

Re: [Elecraft] FW: Using your tower as a vertical - 160 or 80

2017-03-01 Thread Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP
Regarding using a tower as a vertical: Some years ago I had a 50-foot mast with a tribander on it next to my house. I ran two wires out my window, one down to the base of the mast and one to a point on it that produced a reasonable SWR on 80 meters. The rotor cable and feedline for the beam

[Elecraft] FW: Using your tower as a vertical - 160 or 80

2017-03-01 Thread Erik Basilier
Hi Alan, Your link didn't work for me, but I assume your article describes how to make a good bandpass filter. I do in fact recall seeing such an article in QST years ago. Assuming that you were just pointing out that I can put a bandpass filter on each feedline, as is common practice in SO2R