I’ve had great luck using a 160M quarter wave vertical shot up over some tall trees.  It’s a pain putting it up each fall.  I don’t leave it up all year because the moving branch tend to destroy it over the summer.

So I’ve been considering two other approaches to get (stay) on 160M;

1) Inverted Vee off the tower at 50ft (simple)

2) Shunt feed the tower (more complex)

Tower is 70Ft with A-4 tribander at the top, and 80 and 40M Inv Vees.

All antennas terminate in an RCS-8V antenna switch mounted on the bottom of the tower along with rotor control lines.

Tower currently has 4 in-ground radials (20-60 ft) with 10 ground rods every 16 ft on the radials

Any advice as to which approach is best and the performance of only using a 70ft tower?

Thanks,

Jeff, W4DD