Scott, make friends (quickly!) with a commercial radio broadcast engineer
that takes care of AM sites that use day and night patterns towers....we did
and during the contest this coming weekend we'll be using a 450' AM vertical
tower with 220 ground-radial system....kicks butt on 160!
73...hope to hear ya during the contest.
ed
>From: snichols@mvosprey.com (Scott Nichols)
>To: towertalk@contesting.com
>Hi all...
>
>Need some advice please...
>
>What is a practical, good working antenna for 160 contesting use ? Not
>looking for anything really fancy, just something that will let me get on
>and work some stations and multipliers so I don't get completely shut out
>of 160 on all band efforts...
>
>Dipole? Vertical ? Inverted L ? Inverted V ?
>
>Any suggestions would be appreciated...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Scott VE1OP
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