Topband: Nobody can hear me

[Jim Miller WB5OXQ in Waco]

I have not had time to build a new antenna for 160 so I tried the DX sloper.  I could hear pretty well with several stations over S9 so I tried throwing my call in a couple of times at 100 watts and got no response.  I hesitate to use much power on the sloper because NU5D warned me his end insulator caught fire.  Anyway I tried again at 500 watts, still nobody could hear me so I risked it and tried 1kw, still no response.  Then I figured if this antenna is so worthless I will try again  pushing the limit but still got no response at 1500+ so this antenna must be totally worthless.  I cannot get any higher than 60' for the center and one tower has too many antennas on it to try to use it for a vertical and my other tower is a crankup 3 section.  I plan to try the linear loaded dipole soon and see if it will work.
WB5OXQ