I've been playing with a 43' vertical for a year or so now. My best setup so far has been raising the base up 24' off the ground. I purchased a telescoping flag-pole to get it up there. I have 24 1/8w radials....the location where it is cant handle longer. I run 40' of RG213 from the vertical to a kw 1:1 balun. Then another 50' of RG213 to the shack. The balun made a ***HUGE*** difference in lowering noise level. My doublet up 45' was beating the vertical until I installed the balun. Now the vertical hears stations much better than the doublet.
This summer I'm installing a used 35' tower to put the vertical on with 4 1/4 wave radials for 40m. Its starting to be a pretty effective DX antenna, so I'm happy to play around testing more setups. N1BBR -- [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
