Albert H wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:52 am
Your coverage looks (from the map) to need to cover about 200°, but not contiguously.
If you looked at the picture I posted a it's actually +/- 250 degrees.
Albert H wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:52 am
The quickest way to get coverage that will show a significant field strength increase into the centres of population.
I'm not bothered about the centres of the ''Main'' population areas, they receive Brian fine,
it's the fringe areas I'm concerned about.
Albert H wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:52 am
Stack lots of Yagis with phasing harnesses. However, this would not be non-obvious, and would require a lattice tower! If we were doing this commercially, that would be the approach, and the incidental "spill" would cover the mountainous countryside for the benefit of the more adventurous types that would go off the beaten tracks!
Impossible to have any sort of lattice tower.
If I did that the
Guardia Civil would show up within 20 minutes,
break down the door and insist I take the construction down at
Gun Point
confiscate and impound all the equipment appertaining to the station until I supplied
them with legal paperwork regarding an operating licence for the Brian
Albert H wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:52 am
If you're determined to stay omni-directional, you really should consider a vertical colinear - real gain for a lot less expense than running a hotter PA (with the expense of the hardware and then all the extra consumption).
Firstly when on a mast this
vertical colinear does it look like a Dipole
The Dipole I had on my mast before I took down and replaced it with the Dominator because...
I was told by many people, it's obvious you have a radio transmitter on that antenna and you
will get reported.
Albert H wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:52 am
When it comes to constructing aerials, you ask where you'd construct one? In our early days, we used to build aerials in my back garden, then take them to out "Testing Range" which was a nearby farm! We used a little 100mW tunable rig and drove 'round the farm measuring the field strengths!
If I went out to go in the middle of nowhere on Gran Canaria with a test rig and antenna to do some field strengths
someone would see me report it to the authorities.
Response time for matters of national security of the
ARMED Guardia Civil is very fast.
I/we would be arrested and held until I/we could explain why and what I/we were doing
*IN SPANISH*
Albert H wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:52 am
Looking at the pictures of your "Brian" studio and the equipment you've set up, suggests that you want your station to have the best of everything. That should include the transmitting facilities and aerial(s). I appreciate that it's basically a "hobby" station, but you've obviously gone to a lot of effort to get most of it right. Give the station a better aerial to get an (almost) free power boost, with no increase in mains consumption!
OK
Give me a link to where i could purchase
(NOT MAKE) a better antenna than the Dominator
that is just as unobtrusive, with the same or less wind load, and that that can handle at least 1000W.
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