Rhombics definitely look cool, but modern antennas definitely outperform them
My favorites: - four stacked rhombics, (two wide, two high) over a salt marsh in ZC4 this array was replaced by a curtain array, steerable in azimuth and elevation - a rosette of sloping rhombics occupying one square mile. Sloping rhombics broaden the elevation pattern, much like stacked Yagis. - many pairs of very wide spaced rhombics used for diversity reception at VOA Greenville Site C As for 160 meters, I'll keep my 4-square transmitting array, Beverages and phased arrays of short receiving verticals! 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Blaine" <[email protected]> To: "Tom W8JI" <[email protected]>, "Tim Shoppa" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 6:33:49 PM Subject: Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics Tom, Why? The same reason guys put up quads. They LOOK very cool! Imagine standing on one end of the rhombic and saying "well, you can't see the end of the antenna without the binoculars - but it's out that-way somewhere." 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie -----Original Message----- From: Tom W8JI Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 12:27 PM To: Shoppa, Tim Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics > Anybody on this list have a Rhombic for 160M? > > W1AW used to use one for bulletins and code practice on 160M but I think > it came down years ago (1989?) > > I seem to recall pics in CQ of a big California desert DX'er who had what > was essentially a radial array of rhombics for maybe 160M or 80M. > I can't imagine why anyone would have one today. Here is an analaysis of Rhomics. http://www.w8ji.com/rhombic_antennas.htm 73 Tom _________________ Topband Reflector _________________ Topband Reflector _________________ Topband Reflector
