[hackpgh-ham] Re: Stealth trapped antenna...

  • From: Matt Stultz <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hackpgh-ham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:27:39 -0400

Actually verticals are really popular with the DX crowd I believe because of
take off angles.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Doug Philips <douglas.philips@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Curious thing is that at Airglow, it seemed that Dave was running a
> horizontal antenna. I don't know what the other folks were using.
> Thought I had remembered that UHF/VHF was mostly vertical and the HF bands
> mostly horizontal. Hence this vertical HF antenna seems iffy...
>
> -D
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 14:11, Matt Stultz <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Yeah, flag pole antennas are really common way of hiding them.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Doug Philips 
>> <douglas.philips@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Jenny sent this on to me (now that I have an HF-rig 'n'all)...
>>> Forwarding it along since I know at least Ed is looking at trap antennas
>>> and maybe some other folks'd be interested as well...
>>>
>>> -D
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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