[CQ-Contest] awesome upgrades to the 8 band vertical!!

[Tom Horton]

i am also looking to put up a sloper for 160m using the design in the ARRL wire antenna book. it uses 90 turns at the top of a 40' tower with 63 or so feet sloping to the earth.

Steve,

 While I was in WV, I used this antenna, and had acceptable performance considering how horribly short the antenna is. Mine was only up to about 40 feet.

 There is another one in th ebook, I believe, that I used before, and it did seem to be quite a bit better for a shortened version. It is the linearly loaded 160 sloper. It's a little trickier to build, but I made one out of just plain old hook-up wire and some ice cream sticks for the spreaders. Worked amazingly well.

Good luck!

73, Tom K5IID 

 




Tom Horton  K5IID
 Hillsboro, TX


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