Thank you for sharing your build Justin. I can only envy the plot of land you have. I am stuck in a tiny back garden with a cobweb antenna (folded dipole) Great to see that this antenna works well for you on 80m Happy DX 73
Yo Justin, good stuiff! Shame we couldnt compare while 4SQing in UK :) Anyway, hope to build one soon back here in OK Land... Jiri M0ITY (G0KPW/M6T Team). Very good work, I like the setup and fact you made the collins unit yourself.
Very nice and thought out. This is the "next" project, hope I can get the 4sq up before winter here in TF ... I'm always happy when I don't hear a G/GM as well as some other TF's on my vertical - then I know it's working for DX ;)
That's incredible, and I looked into your play list to see the US contact with the Collins transceiver. One question, the inductor on the legs, have you thought about creating a cage type arrangement, with some sort of circular group of wires for each vertical? I haven't got anywhere near the space to try it on 80m but I was toying with that sort of idea for 10m, just as an experiment, to try increasing the bandwidth.
@@thewtf Ah, no, I wasn't talking about building a four square for it, more about the concept of a cage dipole or a cage vertical to increase the bandwidth.
@@paulsengupta971 Ah OK!! I initially thought about doing that with the 40m 4 square.....theoretically it should increase the bandwidth. What I discovered was that with more wires around the poles the mast became too heavy
A lot of work, but good results! Congratulations !! You will not see the real difference with the dipole until the DX season and intercontinental distances. Best 73 de SP7GXK
I am sure on long distances within Europe, in daylight, the 4-square will always outperform the dipol. That is already the case with my single vertical compared to the 22m high dipole.
@@MrTalaue Of course ! I made a 1/4 wave sluper system here (only 3 every 120 degrees) from my 27m mast and there is very good directivity and QRM attenuation from EU Best 73!
@@zbyszekpodchmielony2642 Great! I use a single quarter wave sloper dropped from the 37m level of my tower and fed at the ground against the 90 radials of one of my 80m array radiaters, works very well and I think now about a second one for the opposite direction or make it a spitfire array next year.
I believe a bunch of pigs would have cleared the lot for you. Viz The Archers. Rent patches out to a pig farmer. Fab system but a bit "Broadcast" ? G.L. es 73 de G3NBY
@@thewtf Hi.... Yes I had thought about that too but small crucial patches could be fenced off with movable fence stock to restrict the porkies as they gorged themselves. However I do believe that pigs are also ingenious escape artists! I've seen big lawns kept in good nick without mowing by trapping pet rabbits in a rectangular frame and moving it around when they needed more grass. 73 de G3NBY.
