Topband: AM broadcast tower and 160m dxpedition

[Joshua M. Arritt]

Congrats indeed!!

Seconding Rick's comment below -- AM towers make REAL lousy RX 
antennas.   They catch ALL* the front-end-pulverizing noise on 160/80.

"Been there, done that..."   well, OK, not the dxpedition part. But I 
have occasionally at night "borrowed" a few AM "Daytime-Only" auth'd 
stations' towers for the Ham Jones.   Great fun QRP!!!!   ;)

73,
     - Josh / KF4YLM


* that is, all the noise in their pattern, which admittedly might be 
more narrow in some elevation angles than the average amateur 
Inverted-L....


On 2/25/2014 3:38 PM, Richard Karlquist wrote:
> Congratulations on your adventure.
>
> In the past, I have seen some of these AM tower efforts
> ruined by lousy receive conditions.  I suggest you
> get an advance team out to the site to check
> out the noise level etc. and maybe put up some
> temporary beverages, loops, whatever and LISTEN
> on them.  Use WWV and WWVH on 2.5 MHz as a beacon.
>
> Others can comment on whether 240 feet is too high.
>
> Rick N6RK
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