On Wed,12/9/2015 2:34 PM, Cqtestk4xs--- via Topband wrote:
On 160 I'm leaning toward a wire vertical suspended from a rope coming
from the tower which would make the antenna about 65 or 70 feet tall and to
compensate for that I would make it a T-top.
I like that idea, Bill. Also, if you can think of a way to do it,
consider wires insulated from the tower, sloping away from it, and fed
from the base against radials or folded counterpoise. If you can elevate
that radials at least 20 ft, you can get away with 4-8 per wire. Add
radials to the tower and it will act as a passive reflector, giving you
a couple of dB in the direction of the slope.
Also look at the several arrays of sloping wires in ARRL antenna
publications. As I recall, there's at least one in the ON4UN book.
73, Jim K9YC
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