Topband: 160m Ant on 80m?

Fri Apr 16 10:11:21 EDT 2004

It will certainly radiate and very efficiently BUT it will have a high takeoff angle of maximum radiation. I have a 160-10 meter horizontal doublet up at 40 feet and I flip a switch to make it a tee vertical on all bands. On 80 meters the low doublet is as good or better then the tee vertical on DX because of the high takeoff angle of radiation on the tee vertical.

73 & GUD DX,
Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF
Plant City, FL, USA
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Thomas Hoeppe 
  To: Topband Reflektor 
  Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 05:15
  Subject: Topband: 160m Ant on 80m?

  Hello,

  has anyone tried to use a 160m Vertical on 80m? The antenna is mechanical 33m high, electrical about 37m (Top-coil). So it will be nearly 1/2 lamda on 80m, and I want to feed it by a parallel-resonant cirquit. I hope to have improvements, as the trees around are about 20m high, so our 1/4 lamda on 80m ist just between the trees. A photo from the air is at QRZ.com, callsign DL0AO.
  Whitch radiation behaviour can I expect?

  Tom, DJ5RE/DL0AO
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