Topband: top band REQUIRES real estate ??

[Dan Edward Dba East edwards]

I guess if you insist on being a 'big gun'..work everything on the first call, and hear 
stuff nobody else can...
 
but, I have been having a ball with 1/2 acre in a restricted subdivision = NO TOWERS.
 
a wire T marconi, 40' tall by 120 long, hung between trees for tx (virtually invisible)
over a modest 25 fifty foot long radials squeezed into a 20 x 100' side yard.
 
with help from K7TJR, a mini 4square for Rx made with flat black 'crappie stalkers'
from Academy Sports (also virtually invisible) virtually on the edges of my lot
 
96 countries worked in less than 1 year. a LONG ways away from any salt water
in north east texas. NOT in the florida keys, or coastal Maine..
 
the man-made noise is something else...24/7...but remarkably enough i have NO
rfi complaints from neighbors with 1.5 kw out (well, WHEN the homebrew amp is
working...)
 
having more fun than ever.
 
so NO, you dont have to be a real estate baron to have fun on 160...
 
FWIW
 
73, W5XZ, dan, longview texas