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Re: [TowerTalk] Adding 160 to an 80M dipole?

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Adding 160 to an 80M dipole?
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:15:09 -0800
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On Tue,12/16/2014 5:16 PM, Larry Banks wrote:
The ARRL 160 contest got me interested in 160.  I would like to add loading 
coils and additional wire to my 80M dipole at my QTH in Maine to see how that 
might fly.  (It would make it an 80/160 dipole.)

Larry,

Horizontal antennas are not very effective on 160M because it's usually not practical to get them high enough to not be a cloud-warmer. I had an 160/80 dipole up about 120 ft between a couple of redwood trees, and I also had an 86 ft Tee vertical for 160. The Tee vertical nearly always beat the dipole, often by a lot.

Here are the slides for a talk I've done to several ham clubs and at Pacificon a few years ago. It may give you some ideas.

http://k9yc.com/160MPacificon.pdf

73, Jim K9YC
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