Topband: double L antenna

[LA8AW]

Jorge,


Together with LA7QI, I successfully installed this antenna (only 160m part
of it) at JW5X in February 2008.
If you check JW8AW on qrz.com, you will see the antenna on the picture. It
is located on the left side of the tower.
Both top and botton goes to the  pole on the left side in the picture.

This antenna was successfully used JW5NM (sadly SK), and by other DXpediton
since 2008.

In Jan 2009 a SM and OZ station activated JW on 160m and had approx 1000
QSO's in a week on this antenna.
(please come forward.....)

My best QSO on top band was w7 (oregon) from within the aurora
oval......with noise level S7-9.

LA5HE sponsored the copper wire used for this antenna. The same type of
copper wire used on L-antennas on vessels in the merchant navy in the good
old days. Thanks Ragnar.

73 de LA8AW - Odd-Egil
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 23:31, Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge at adinet.com.uy
> wrote:

> Hello,
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> Someone tried this antenna?   <http://www.yccc.org/Articles/double_l.htm>
> http://www.yccc.org/Articles/double_l.htm
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> I want to do it only for 160 mts, but don´t know if it will work or if it
> need the 80 mts wire to performe well. I don´t know if the 80 mts section
> is
> doing something to the 160 mts section.
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> If you have a 120ft tower you can do a vertical wire of 100ft (instead of
> 70ft) and the horizontal wires of 85 (instead of 100ft)? Will be better or
> not?
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> Or maybe better to put the lower horizontal wire at about 40 ft (instead of
> 10ft) and the top one at about 110ft, will be better to have the feedpoint
> higher?
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> Thanks in advance!
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> 73,
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> Jorge
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> CX6VM/CW5W
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