Vic, thanks for your comments! Erik K7TV -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2017 12:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FW: Using your tower as a vertical - 160 or 80
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 ran down to the ground, and then back up to the shack. No ferrites or anything on the feedline. I wrapped the rotor cable around a ferrite rod at the rotor controller. I had a system of 16 radials, each about 20' long, and in a half-circle. I ran about 600 watts to this arrangement and didn't notice RF issues in the shack. It worked surprisingly well, producing contacts from here into the US as far west as Illinois. 73, Vic, 4X6GP Rehovot, Israel Formerly K2VCO http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
