Re: Topband: Experiences with toploaded vertical with spiderbeam pole?

Henk, I use the 26m Spiderbeam pole for almost 6 years, and it survived every storm until now (in an exposed area).  As far I can say the quality of pole, wires (they are basically the same on the 18m pole) and ropes etc is very good. Yes, almost "only" wire, but it ads up for kevlar ropes,

Re: Topband: Experiences with toploaded vertical with spiderbeam pole?

Henk Don't spend 139 Euro on a piece of wire! For DXpeditions (ZL7G, ZC4A, TX6G, etc, etc) we use an 18m Spiderpole with T loading. But we take out the top section (maybe the top two, I forget) because they are not strong enough. At the base, a simple matching network, costing a few Euros (easily

Re: Topband: Experiences with toploaded vertical with spiderbeam pole?

Henk, I am using project described by DJ0IP here: https://www.dj0ip.de/vertical-antennas/160-80m-on-18m-pole/ works very well, just please remember its very narrow... pon., 17 lut 2020 o 13:31 Henk Remijn PA5KT via Topband < topband@contesting.com> napisał(a): > Hi, > > I am looking for

Re: Topband: Experiences with toploaded vertical with spiderbeam pole?

Hi Henk - we are using an 18 meter Spiderpole at ET3AA. It supports a wire, using a Unadilla 80 meter trap (no longer in production), so that it works on both 80 and 160 meters. I found while using those traps at XW4ZW, that they cannot handle more than 900 - 1000 watts. That is not an issue in

Topband: Experiences with toploaded vertical with spiderbeam pole?

Hi, I am looking for experiences with the toploaded vertical with a 18m Spiderbeam pole. As described on the Spiderbeam website: <> I have