Topband: ITINERANT 160 M ANTENNA PROJECT

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

Bill,

Since this is a temporary installation you do you get some thin insulated wire and lay 30 to 60 radials on the ground.
You have to carry more wire but you won't have to worry about supporting elevated radials.

I use 16 conductor surplus ribbon cable for this purpose.

Mike N2MS

----- Original Message -----
From: bills stuff <billsstuff at gotsky.com>
To: topband at contesting.com
Sent: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:00:15 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Topband: ITINERANT 160 M ANTENNA PROJECT

The plan is to develop a simple, relatively inexpensive, relatively 
light weight and shippable/airline transportable 160 antenna kit for one 
man quick deployment for modest DXpeditions or contributed for use by 
resident hams in rare-ish (for 160 m) locations. The ability to make 
adjustments to actual deployments to provide matching is important since 
such antennas are famously variable due to soil and local obstruction 
environment and there should not be a need for antenna matching 
hardware, especially at the planned higher powers.

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Inv L top wire end was at ~ 2.5 m height with a support of opportunity 
(e.g., a tree) ~ 25 m from base

I am looking for collaborators to contribute ideas to help improve, and 
potentially, test design issues. Check out the website at

http://n6mw.ehpes.com

for the Itinerant 160 m antenna project expanded discussion toward the 
bottom.

The immediate target is designing and assembling a respectable 160 m 
antenna that might go to KH8 on a DXpedition.

Bill, N6MW

billsstuff(at)gotsky.com