Well since your gonna need 100 ft towers for supports why not configure it in a delta loop and use the tower for one side of the loop, since your wishing and it is Christmas time!
Barry, KF5GC --- W5OMR/Geoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Barry Sherwood wrote: > > >Yep Geoff used aluminum ground wire bought at rat > >shack to wind the coil with. Probably cannot get > that > >at rat shack any more either! > > > > > > > > > > I don't know if it's still available, but a couple > of decades or so, > ago, my dad built up a 2-element VHF Quad, for DF > work, out of aluminum > clothesline wire. > > Probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 3/16" ~ > 1/4" diamater - > self-supporting... he use a couple of peices of > plexi-glass for element > supports, and one end of the plexi for the > feed-point. Worked well. > > Years later (about 3 ago, now) I used a 2-elemnt > quad on 17m SSB, and > worked the world on it. Not that I have ever been > into hunting' DX, but > that quad would open the band, and put it to sleep > and more often than > not, be one of the last stations heard from this > area, with just 100w on > SSB. > > I wish I had the room for a rotatable 2-element quad > on 75m. > > Failing the room to rotate, a remote coax switch on > the reflector could > add/subtract lengths of line to change the direction > of the f/b pattern. > > lessee... 1005 / 3.9Mc = ~260' / 4 = ~ 65' per side. > There would have > to be a pair of 100' tall supports, with a bridle > to hold up the top > part of the elements, and spaced at about 65 > electrical degrees @ 3.9Mc > would put the towers at around 45 1/2' apart... > > hey, while I'm dreaming, why not have two of those > setups? one for the > East/Northeast and the other for the West/Northwest. > ;-) > > I'm rather centrally located here, in South Central > Texas. > > I did dream up a multi-band, 2-element phased Quad > array. I've never > had the opportunity to put it up and test it, but I > think it'd work fine. > > Tell me what you think > w 5 o m r d o t s h a c k n e t d o t n u > slash ~ w 5 o m > r s l a s h h a m s t u f f s l a s h Q u > a d > > w5omr.shacknet.nu/~w5omr/hamstuff/Quad > > there's no www... just http:// > > --- > 73 = Best Regards, > -Geoff/W5OMR > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net > AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami > __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com
