Topband: 160 Meters Mobile Antenna Suggestions

[Donald Chester]

>
>A 160 meter mobile antenna is going to have a very narrow bandwidth so
>it may not be effective for BCB unless you are able to tune it
>somehow.  2:1 SWR bandwidth typically will be on the order of 20-30
>kHz.

That's being very optimistic for such a short antenna.  My 110' high 80m 
(135' in length) dipole with open wire tuned feeders, using a balanced 
link-coupled tuner wih split-stator cap, parallel fed, is more like +/-  8 
kHz.  I would expect an efficient 160m. mobile installation to be 
essentially a single-channel affair.

Don  K4KYV

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