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You told me the length of the reflector for a 2 element skypper. How much shorter is the director for a 3 element? Same boom length?

I haven't been in the garage much with no heat. I've turned it on just haven't tried for a couple days. Even March can be cold. I'll give it a shot.

It's snowing, well below freezing and I'm ready for spring.

Thanks for the link to the azimuth map. That is very helpful. With the warmer weather this spring, I'll get a moxon up. The neighbors don't seem to be phased by 17 ft of pvc in the air. Gain and rejection should be nice.

Thanks for the response! It was my first clear contact from across the pond. I'll check out .355 more often too.

I may add yet another sleeve for a moxon build. The upper mast is double walled rotating inside 2" pvc. I was able to raise it with one arm after I got the top clamp around it. Light and pretty sturdy. Will see what it does when the weather warms up. The upper angle arm T's are ported to slide...

Feed point is at 18' I hear a lot of distant stations over the noise now. I'm not saying it's miraculous but an improvement from when it was at 12 or 13 feet. Made it to AZ and southern cal so far.

Build a frame and string the wire or hang it up between two trees. Horizontal would quiet his vertical.

Update: I just checked swr and it's 2:1. As I said, I have quite a bit of metal nearby. You should have better luck. Around 12 feet in the air, I have 1.5:1 on 27.385.

I've got my dipole waiting to go up. In the garage, I can pull in stations but I haven't keyed. It's 8 ft from the garage floor with far too many wires and metal objects nearby. It would be worth a try. It's cheap and easy.

Thanks for the kind words 222. I'll get some pictures up when it's complete. I've always learned better with hands on projects. This has been fun and I've learned a little from it. I'm excited to get it up higher and try it out.

Too rich for my blood. I wouldn't even need 1% of that power. Insane.

It's a little further along than when I took the picture

I ran out of daylight. It's ready to go outside. This gave me more time to make the mount which screws to the garage. I also found more time to wrap the rope bushings around the 1.25" pvc handle. All I have left is to paint the mount, glue the handle into the mast, and put it up.

Welcome to the forum. Maybe I'll catch you on the air sometime.

My feed point will be at 18' from the ground. 7' off the top of the garage. The 1" pvc is much stronger and droops slightly when held up even without the angle arms on yet. I've even figured out a way to manually turn it from the ground. In hindsight, I could have run my feed point out of the...

I removed all the 1/2". 1" is taking its place. I also picked up a 2" sleeve for the mast to rotate in. Same design just stronger. So much for discreet.

More work to do.

According to one of the old timers here in town, spark gap was still going. Though he takes his radios down around St Louis somewhere. I could try to catch him on the air but he's rarely on anymore.