Hello,
I would definitly go for a higher placed moxon.
horizontal antennas have additional ground gain, much more than verticals do.
horizontal antennas need heigth in order to get a low take off angle.
Your just on the point where horizontal antennas start to get bennefit above verticals for Dxing. Going higher would be your first goal.
Im not saying you wont be able to take skip, im saying it is benneficial to go higher.
(at least if your into talking skip).
Copper is heavy...
Isnt there a aluminium supplier somewhere ?
You could make it out of copperwire and a couple fishingrods.
I know you said it will break, and heavy winds...
But the antenna will only cost a couple bucks, who cares if it brakes.
For element seperators we use fiberglass rod. (not tube)
Cant remember how many moxon's we already made...but all are still up.
Typical bandwidth is in the order of 1,6 MHz (2:1)
Kind regards,
H.
