Topband: Anyone purchased the ARRL book on Short Antennas for160???

[Mike Waters]

The only real way to tell is have one of each, and do many instant A-B
comparisons over a period of time.

I just have two 10'+ high elevated radials on my bottom-fed L. It seems to
work "well", but I should add more radials this summer. And that's what
I'll probably do before I ever build one of those.
http://www.w0btu.com/160_meters.html#inv-l_antenna

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Gary and Kathleen Pearse <pearse at gci.net>wrote:

> I've built them for 40 and 80 via his modeling years ago. Fed both up
> high, and both down low. High feed 'seemed better', but no real way to
> tell. Worked a RU station on 80 from KL7 so they do emit a signal. It was a
> good aerial, easy to build, with some vertical component to the pattern.
>
> On 160 it may take some bending. Fed low it's a vert with an elevated
> radial. Two would be better, but then so would four and so on.
>
> 73, Gary NL7Y
>
> > Wouldn't feeding it up high in the corner like that at least eliminate
> the
> > need for radials?
>