{"id":9335,"date":"2015-04-04T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/04\/vk3mos-20-element-monobander-for-20-meters\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:22:14","slug":"vk3mos-20-element-monobander-for-20-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/04\/vk3mos-20-element-monobander-for-20-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"VK3MO’s 20 Element Monobander for 20 Meters!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ian VK3MO was booming in from Australia this morning. No wonder: he has a 5 over 5 over 5 over 5 array on a rotatable tower. He can get a 3 degree takeoff angle with this antenna and I think I heard him say that he is working on another so that he can get a one degree takeoff angle. He was also using a using a Collins 30L1 linear. Lots of soul in that old machine! <\/strong><\/div>\n
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At one point in our QSO, I turned off my .12 kW amplifier. He said I was still 58-59 with 3-4 watts. <\/strong><\/div>\n
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And Ian is a homebrewer! He has built a number of transceivers and has another one in the works. I told him about the BITX and he printed out Farhan’s article (to read later). He tells me that he has heard Peter Parker, VK3YE, on the air. <\/strong><\/div>\n
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In this QSO, Ian was using a modern commercial rig, but wouldn’t it be great if we could get him to connect a homebrew sideband rig to that big antenna. Go for it Ian! <\/strong><\/div>\n
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Ian VK3MO was booming in from Australia this morning. No wonder: he has a 5 over 5 over 5 over 5 array on a rotatable tower. He can get a 3 degree takeoff angle with this antenna and I think I heard him say that he is working on another so that he can get … Continue reading “VK3MO’s 20 Element Monobander for 20 Meters!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,29,66,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-australia","category-farhan","category-parker-peter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9338,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions\/9338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}