Hi Mike,
It is a 78 Ft tower with 2 triband Yagi’s shunt fed with a few radials. It’s
about 50 feet from the waters edge.
Stan K5GO has considered putting up a 160 meter vertical closer to the water
but the shunt fed tower has performed extremely well in past contests and
DX’ing so we haven’t changed what’s working!!
73 Joel W5ZN / ZF2ZN
> On Dec 1, 2025, at 4:16 PM, Mike Fulcher <mikekc7v@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> What is the antenna there for 160? You were loud here in Phoenix.
>
> Mike KC7V
>
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM jon jones <n0jk@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Great score Joel at ZF5T on 160 Meters!
>>
>> The geomagnetic field was active during the CQ WW CW with storm conditions
>> Friday evening. And with thunderstorm QRN Saturday evening it made for
>> challenging conditions from the Caribbean on the Topband.
>>
>> 810 contacts in 75 countries is amazing in light of this.
>>
>> 73 — Jon N0JK
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 13:13:18 -0500
>> From: Joel Harrison <w5znjoel@gmail.com>
>> To: uy0zg <uy0zg@mksat.net>
>> Cc: Kenny Silverman <kenny.k2kw@gmail.com>, Topband
>> <topband@contesting.com>
>> Subject: Re: Topband: TK0C skimmer on 160
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>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> I was the 160 meter op at ZF5T. Thanks for the Q and glad to put you in
>> our log.
>>
>> Condx from ZF Friday evening to EU were very gud but around 0330z to 0400z
>> the band went pretty much dead to EU. There was no EU SR peak.
>>
>> Saturday around 0130z we had horrible QRN from a storm somewhere in the
>> Caribbean that made copy on 160 and 80 near impossible. It calmed down
>> around 0300z but condx were very bad to EU and sigs weak.
>>
>> To the west our furthest contact was with KH6J and one other station on
>> Hawaii but that was it. No JA?s or anything else. We had JA?s spotted on
>> the cluster but they were being picked up by a JA skimmer.
>>
>> Overall it was a good weekend but could have been great with some better
>> condx and no QRN during the Saturday evening session. We finished with 810
>> Q?s, 18 Zones, and 75 countries on 160 from ZF for the weekend.
>>
>> 73 Joel W5ZN / ZF2ZN
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