Topband: Power Coupling on 160 meters

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<   Sometimes, close-in, IT'S the disaster!


_I think the take off angle is everything..During one of the contests this
season I was absoultly unable to work a couple of LOUD (30 over)Texas
stations using
a vertical.They are about a thousand miles away.After moving off of them I
easily worked a
far east coast and a mexican station both of which were near the noise
level.The only thing
I can attribute that to is the low take off angle of the vertical.

Bud  W0HG  Colo