Posted by
n7ws on
Dec 20, 2010; 3:26pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Semi-OT-vertical-wire-antennas-tp5851823p5852907.html
If you have the kind of dirt I have here in the Sonoran Desert, I contend that the worst horizontal wire you can put up will be better than the best 43' vertical you can use.
As long as we're using anecdotal evidence, check my call in the ZL8X log. I missed them on 10-meter RTTY. Except for 20-meters where I have a homebrew 3-el Yagi at 45 feet, all of the other QSOs were using an inverted-vee doublet with 40-meter and 80-meter wires in parallel fed with 175 feet of RG-8. The ends are about 25 feet off the ground.
I worked them on 160 CW using my barefoot TS-870S because it has a tuner (my K3 does not) and my L-4B doesn't cover 160. For the SSB QSO I added some wire to the ends to resonate it. One end was four feet off the ground. I worked them with the barefoot K3.
If you're not into anecdotal evidence, (I'm not), modeling will show this to you. Yes, verticals have a lower "angle of radiation," but much less of it, even at the favored angle, than a "high-angle" horizontal.
Wes N7WS
--- On Mon, 12/20/10, Bob Naumann <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> I can heartily recommend the AD5X 43'
> remote-switched matching system. I use
> one with my Zero Five 43' vertical and it works remarkably
> well on 160
> through 10m. Look for my callsign in the ZL8X online lookup
> - I worked them
> on CW on all bands 160 through 10m and a few on SSB and
> RTTY too with only
> this antenna.
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