Why are we taking three 20 metre antennas ?

We plan to run two stations on 20 metres whilst the band is open. We will be making full use of the 600 metres of seashore that we have, to space our antennas to the maximum effect.

At all times at least one of the 20 metre stations will have a linear, and for part of each day, both will. The use of our linears is planned as follows:

* The 10m station amplifier will be switched to 6m when the band is open

Depending on propagation and the progress we make in QSO numbers on each band, the above plan may change to allow use of the linears during the evening on the HF bands that otherwise would be barefoot.

But why a third antenna for 20m ?  Well, we want to evaluate the use of phased verticals when compared to monoband three element yagis, both at the water's edge. There are many favourable reports of the use of phased verticals, and we want to compare their performance against our yagis. We will be doing A/B switching to compare performance on various paths. At the end of the DXpedition we hope to have an objective view of the relative advantages of the two types of antennas when optimally placed at the water's edge.

One of our 20m yagis at D68C