To amplify. This will go up on a 70' tower with lots if top loading. AD recommends putting it at the top of the tower.
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 19, 2011, at 12:14, "Mike & Coreen Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > ED, > > I had up an Alpha-Delta DX-A Twin sloper...I think it was the A model not the > B model. > It was on a 48' tower only at the 26' mark. Some big 6m beams up on the top. > It worked "OK" but not great....had it on 3 different towers usually around > the 30'(ish) mark. > Before I owned it, another ham had it up @ the 48' mark and > again...."meh".....not the greatest > but certainly better than a low dipole. IE: Your tower provides the other > half of the antenna. > > VE9AA > > Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith > 699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge > NB > Canada > E6L 1T1 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Cc: ZR ; <[email protected]> ; Bruce > Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 1:42 PM > Subject: Topband: Alpha Delta sloper (DX B) > > Has anybody tried one of these on 160m? Thoughts appreciated. > > 73 > Ed NI6S > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 19, 2011, at 9:39, "Price Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > not conduct well. If it is not possible to drive a rod all the way in, avoid > > > > leaving a large amount above the ground. (Short metal lengths can pick up > > signals like AM car radio antennas did years ago) > > > > > > Carl and all, > > > > For safety reasons ground rods should NOT stick out of the ground. If one > > would fall on one it would do some serious damage. > > I dig a hole about 1 foot deep and drive the rod to below ground level. They > > go in easy in most soils with a large impact hammer. > > > > 73 Price W0RI > > > > _______________________________________________ > > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.454 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/4021 - Release Date: 11/16/11 > 19:34:00 _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
