--- In [email protected], "JOHN MACKEY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my situation, I have a tower that is on the roof of a large building. I > want to put a 10 meter sloper on top of the building against the tower to > favor the west. I am wondering if anyone has ever used a 10 meter sloper. > > Hi John.
I have used thet very same setup you want to build and it works well. It seems to have some directivity, (as it should) and a fairly low angle of radiation. The one I built worked every bit as well as the Shakespeare Super Big Stick that I was using on 29.100. If nothing else, its cheap and almost invisible with nearly zero wind load. My setup had no balun, just a coaxial choke of 5-6 turns about 8" diameter at the feed. That choke was not given any thought or engineering, I just thought it sounded like a good idea. Please, no e- mails telling me that the choke would never work like that. ;-) I fed the thing with RG-8X and put about 450 watts into it with no trouble. 73 de John ab6li
