I'd like to see what antenna everyone here uses for 10 meter dx,and why.
I'd like to see what antenna everyone here uses for 10 meter dx,and why.
Gap Titan. It's a vertical, and covers a small part of 80 (sort of), 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12, and 10 meters. No tuner.
As a vertical, it has a lower angle of radiation, so it works better for "skip".
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
10 meter dipole, strung in the attic.
A given Imax 2000 CB antenna with homebrew 5 meter radials ( teflon wire with silvered copper wire in it, as used in The European planes) work 10/12/15/17 with that, on 10 this year Japan, Australia, New Sealand, India, Hong Kong, China, all europe and Eurasia, Iceland, North and South America, South africa, Carabeans, Curacao, Suriname, etc, even a few Membershere from the Island.
t wil tune on 20 but there the OCF works better.
I still have a 3 element beam here, but untill i clean out the 2 and 70 beams out of the mast on the roof, no space to put it up.
A vertical works fine, low angle of radiation good for DX.
"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop
telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
“I’m not liberal/conservative, I’m anti-idiotarian.”
At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution
Homebrew Moxon beam.
It's up on a mast now, of course.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Solarcon Antron 99. Added a radial for 17/20. Some signals on 20m sound better, others don't. Just depends. With the tuner it tunes up fine. Several years ago I used it on 6m.
I've enjoyed island life for 17 years. That's 13 years more than the Confederacy was around.
RIP Albi
When do you tell a woman you're a ham?
It's a jungle out there. Many EQ stupidly with poor articulation.
~TKX
YIAH
"And, of course, the Gym Teacher being his usual self."
W3WN
"The enablers ride on the top of the pile."
WZ7U
There's a little 10m prop right now, anyone care for a go?
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Never mind, must have been some sporadic E--I was hearing a European station working split but it's gone now.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
One of these days I'm going to have to try and put something vertically-polarized on 10m and see about FM - there's a repeater ~50mi from here, would be cool if I could reach it.
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A couple different Hustler verticals:
6BTV with base at 35ft; 4 tuned radials per band.
"Hybrid-BTV" - 10-11/12/15/17M from a modified 4BTV; base at 30ft and 4 tuned radials per band.
The 10-11M radials are stagger-tuned: 1 ea 1/4w electrical length at 26.900, 27.400, 28.300 and 29.300MHz. SWR is less than 2:1 from 26.300 up through the top of 10M, this measured with an MFJ-269 analyzer.
I'm probably going to put some kind of 13-33MHz log periodic up in the next couple years and if I get the right piece of property, a Pro-96S will be going up on some Rohn 55.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
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