On 9/20/2012 2:55 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Does anyone have any real world experience with these dipoles?
Yes we do, just remember the signal George AA7JV from Mellish reef, Willis or Chesterfield. BUT the antenna near the water in the beach does not work so well, the antenna must be in the water as you can see on the pictures. That brings an issue with tide, George built an auto antenna tuner for that reason. There is almost 10 db in gain from 100 FT near the water to an antenna inside the salt water. http://vk9gmw.com/gallery.html http://www.tx3a.com/ Recently we had several good DX-expeditions with great signal on 160m with antennas radials toughing the sea water, whoever the gain is valid for all HF bands. The last George invention will be in QST very soon and he will use it on the upcoming DX-expedition to PT0S, It is a vertical elements with horizontal counterpoise elements for 10 -15 and 20m to stand near/over sea water 8ft high. George was able to break NH8S pile-up from South Florida with low power using it, first call!!.. Regards Jose Carlos N4IS _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
