Bill,
Since this is a temporary installation you do you get some thin insulated wire
and lay 30 to 60 radials on the ground.
You have to carry more wire but you won't have to worry about supporting
elevated radials.
I use 16 conductor surplus ribbon cable for this purpose.
Mike N2MS
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From: bills stuff <billsstuff@gotsky.com>
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:00:15 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Topband: ITINERANT 160 M ANTENNA PROJECT
The plan is to develop a simple, relatively inexpensive, relatively
light weight and shippable/airline transportable 160 antenna kit for one
man quick deployment for modest DXpeditions or contributed for use by
resident hams in rare-ish (for 160 m) locations. The ability to make
adjustments to actual deployments to provide matching is important since
such antennas are famously variable due to soil and local obstruction
environment and there should not be a need for antenna matching
hardware, especially at the planned higher powers.
<snip>
Inv L top wire end was at ~ 2.5 m height with a support of opportunity
(e.g., a tree) ~ 25 m from base
I am looking for collaborators to contribute ideas to help improve, and
potentially, test design issues. Check out the website at
http://n6mw.ehpes.com
for the Itinerant 160 m antenna project expanded discussion toward the
bottom.
The immediate target is designing and assembling a respectable 160 m
antenna that might go to KH8 on a DXpedition.
Bill, N6MW
billsstuff(at)gotsky.com
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