Re: Topband: 2-el array SWR question (160m)

2016-10-17 Thread Mike Smith VE9AA
Update: I didn't see my message appear on either reflector, so with only a couple hours of daylight of good sun (and wx this week looking bleak), I rolled the dice and went out an shortened each raised radial by 4.5'(by folding back the wire onto itself) and physically cut the vertical portion by

Topband: 2-el array SWR question (160m)

2016-10-17 Thread Mike Smith VE9AA
Today I installed 160m vertical #2 in what will soon become a Comtek PVS-2 (2el BS/EF) array for 160m. (vy recently I installed 3 Comtek (wire) 4-squares for 20, 40 &80m. Spacing is about 134’ for these two 1/4wl 160m antennas. (oriented NNE/SSW-best I could do, given the property here) With