you mean like a screwdriver antenna coil?
> On 12/17/2014 11:30:03 AM, KJ6Y--- via TowerTalk (towertalk@contesting.com)
> wrote:
> > Another way to add 160 to the Hytower is use one of the mobile antenna
> coils from Hi-Q or similar. You then have a remotely tunable antenna for
> 160
> and 80, with out having to change taps.
>
>
> Skip, KJ6Y
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> In a message dated 12/17/2014 6:24:12 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> patrick_g@windstream.net writes:
>
> The Hy-Gain Hy-Tower (AKA can work 160 with the base loading coil but
> it is not my preferred method. If you have room for the "horizontal"
> run, Hy-Gain has a kit to add 160 meters in a way I like better as it
> requires no tapping of the coil and switching the coil in or out of the
> circuit (not convenient.)
>
> The kit consists of a 40 meter trap which is attached to the vertical at
> the top of the 24 ft triangular portion and continues on (bare antenna
> wire) to the supplied end insulator (provided) forming an inverted "L"
> configuration. The 40 Meter trap is to keep the long wire from detuning
> the antenna's 40 meter function. This makes 160 band switching
> "automatic" like the other bands.
>
> Oh, ...and
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