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g3ypz
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« Reply #50 on: March 20, 2011, 01:01:09 PM »

Thanks for your patience, steve, High noise level here and you faded out. Hope to catch you again soon.
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John
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Steve - K4HX
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« Reply #51 on: March 20, 2011, 01:04:35 PM »

You will John. I'm motivated to put up a better antenna. Before today, I hadn't made a contact on 15 meters in something like 20-25 years. Thanks.

The 40 meter delta loops do apparently have some directivity on 15 meters. I could hear it on many signals when switching the pattern. But according to the modeling, the take-off angle is way too high and the gain is nonexistent. I'm sure I can do better.


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g3ypz
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« Reply #52 on: March 20, 2011, 01:46:58 PM »

A simple extended double zepp will work well and give you about 3Dbd. i used on on 15 in the last cycle. Solong as you can get it a half wave high and broadside to me there will be no prblem, I'm sure.
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John
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Steve - K4HX
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« Reply #53 on: March 20, 2011, 07:06:18 PM »

Was considering just that, an EDZ. Another thought was a pair of dipoles stacked. The stacked dipoles provide more gain at a lower take-off angle and and with broader azimuthal beamwidth. I'll probably start off with just a dipole and go from there.
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