Opinions needed!

[hobie102]

OK, would like to try and be able to beam west towards west coast stations. My situation is impossible now. Running a moxon rectangle at 30 feet and considering 2 options. 1: Put a positive tilt on the moxon 10-20 degrees. 2: pick up another 102" whip and make a dipole flat side running N to S beaming west mounted to the chimney of the house. I have a 3600 ft mountain of marble (I'm at 600 ft elevation) going straight up from my back door. Any other options? I really don't want to mess up the moxon as it performs excellent as is going N S & E.

All input is appreciated.

 

[RatsoW8]

At 27mhz angling the antenna up won't do much more than launch your signal into space. When I was young I lived in WV and we would run ladder line (when it was cheap) up a mountain side with a balun at the top end to a ground plane antenna up in a tall pine tree. They were called mountain lions.

Not sure you situation is fixable other than moving or being happy with N-S contacts most of the time.

 

[hobie102]

This is a great read on the moxon.

http://www.qsl.net/w9anl/newsltrs/2008/0807.pdf

Confirms my suspicion that the angle is very low at the height I'm running. Around 18 deg. I can hear stations all the time from AZ,CA and the pacific northwest. Unfortunately. All of my signal is firing directly into the mountain behind the house. I need the angle to be about 45 degrees and of course, it all depends on the atmospheric conditions and where the skip will end up.

Going east is not a problem as I work pretty much all of EU including Russia almost daily.

 

[222DBFL]

I've got an old walker sitting In the attic, may have to make me one of those moxon antennas!! Have you tried any type of vertical antenna? Might be worth a try to build a simple dipole and experiment. Good luck and be careful on the roof!!

 

[DainBramage]

simple,........... put a remote base on top of the mountain

 

[Tallman]

I have a 3600 ft mountain of marble (I'm at 600 ft elevation) going straight up from my back door. Any other options?
All input is appreciated.

Put this on the tallest mast you can. Or mount it on top of the mountain. Rig up your own private repeater, buy the mountain top and move there.
http://www.hyelectronics.com/BASE-ANTENNA/productinfo/M400/

 

[BJ radionut]

Might think about a Wire 4-5 Element beam (dipole fed) same slope as the Hillside...
Again all depends on propagation...
Doing the same thing with my 75/80 meter...W8JK (Google that one)...45 Ft in the front 35 ft. in the rear....20 over S9 this morning in CA and Upstate Wash and that's 75 meters from IND!
Never Hurts to try...made out of wire, if it does not work you have scrap wire for another project!
All the Best
Gary

This is a great read on the moxon.

http://www.qsl.net/w9anl/newsltrs/2008/0807.pdf

Confirms my suspicion that the angle is very low at the height I'm running. Around 18 deg. I can hear stations all the time from AZ,CA and the pacific northwest. Unfortunately. All of my signal is firing directly into the mountain behind the house. I need the angle to be about 45 degrees and of course, it all depends on the atmospheric conditions and where the skip will end up.

Going east is not a problem as I work pretty much all of EU including Russia almost daily.

 

[hobie102]

Might think about a Wire 4-5 Element beam (dipole fed) same slope as the Hillside...
Again all depends on propagation...
Doing the same thing with my 75/80 meter...W8JK (Google that one)...45 Ft in the front 35 ft. in the rear....20 over S9 this morning in CA and Upstate Wash and that's 75 meters from IND!
Never Hurts to try...made out of wire, if it does not work you have scrap wire for another project!
All the Best
Gary

Thanks Gary! To all the others, Thanks for the laughs!