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Future Projects ?

Talking about future project I mast say that everyone of us fell in love with this hobby should want to own the best and big antennas with high performances, unfortunately not many Hams could not do that due to several reasons, one very common is the local antenna restrictions in urban and suburban area, in this case it will be already a success if they could install a simple multiband vertical, in this regard I'm very lucky, I'm living here in a house of my property with lot of room in the backyard so i can install ( almost ) everything I wish, the first project ( after lot of disappointmen in the first try in 1999 ) is to try again to match my tower in 160m. using four elevated radials and using new kind of feed, the idea comes from N4KG called reverse feed system ( see book Low Band DXing by ON4UN ) , but first for Winter 2006/2007 i wish to add some ( four ) elevated radials to my actual 160m. Inverted L, for second future project is to built a real 80m. four square verticals array, i will inform you later as the job proceed, stay tuned guys !

New 160m. Vertical and 80m. Four Square Vertical Dipoles Arrangement

Next Year 2010, I wish to try a new 160m. vertical Tower and a new 80m. Four Square Vertival Dipole Arrangement, as support I will use my unused old 24m. triangular Tower 14 inches on a side, lengthen to a about 100 feet, This will be feed as 160m antenna, I do not know if I use it as isolated Antenna or as a shunt feed tower yet, however it will also serve as support for a new arrangement of the Four Square Vertical Dipoles Array, this time will be properly spaced and with a height sufficient to allow proper truss layout and no longer fall back on the dipoles themselves.
Whole installation will be put at a distance away as possible from the current Tower, a minimum of 140 feet is desirable, more is better, well closing now, stay tuned.