I have used leaning verticals off of towers/trees, etc., for 160 for many
years and learned a bunch in the process... The best, by far, has been two
1/4 wave vertical sections fed at the base, driven as a director and
parasitic reflector, with 1/8 wave long elevated radials, which are resonated
with an inductor of about 14 microhenries ... The current setup has the
bases each 100 feet from the tower ( 200 foot separation) and the top ends
spaced out from the tower as much as possible (the greater the separation the
better).... 10 foot, 4X4 treated posts hold the bottom end of the antenna 7
feet on the air, as well as the radials, etc. ... I use tupperware boxes for
the coax ends/relays/etc. The front to back is excellent and the pattern
much cleaner than being fed at the apex (according to EzNec), and the antenna
tunes up just as the software predicts... I have phillystran guys so these
antenna elements are placed for optimum performance and do not support the
tower... Guy wire antennas will work also, providing you pull insulated
copper wire up using the insulator broken, steel guys as a support and feed
the rf to the copper... steel has too much loss...
Denny k8do@aol.com
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