Re: Topband: duo-band 80m/160m antenna

2014-06-12 Thread Rik van Riel
On 06/03/2014 11:15 AM, Carl wrote: What about two seperate antennas with a common feed? Have the 80 as a vertical and the 160 spaced from it a foot or so and then go to a L or T at the top? The double L antenna is just that: http://www.yccc.org/Articles/double_l.htm I do not know how it

Topband: duo-band 80m/160m antenna

2014-06-03 Thread Carl Luetzelschwab
All, I had a quarter-wave 80m wire vertical (thanks to a pulley under the limb of an 80ft tall oak tree) with three elevated radials. Worked great. I bought a length of 3-inch OD BW inductor stock and got some high-voltage door-knob capacitors to make an 80m trap. Put it at the top of the 80m

Re: Topband: duo-band 80m/160m antenna

2014-06-03 Thread Carl
All, I had a quarter-wave 80m wire vertical (thanks to a pulley under the limb of an 80ft tall oak tree) with three elevated radials. Worked great. I bought a length of 3-inch OD BW inductor stock and got some high-voltage door-knob capacitors to make an 80m trap. Put it at the top of the