Topband: duo-band 80m/160m antenna

Carl km1h at jeremy.mv.com
Tue Jun 3 11:15:38 EDT 2014


> All,
>
> I had a quarter-wave 80m wire vertical (thanks to a pulley under the limb
> of an 80ft tall oak tree) with three elevated radials. Worked great.
>
> I bought a length of 3-inch OD B&W inductor stock and got some 
> high-voltage
> door-knob capacitors to make an 80m trap. Put it at the top of the 80m
> vertical, added three 120ft elevated radials and added a wire that slanted
> back to the house to resonate it on 160m.
>
> it took some extra work, but it was a nice duo-band antenna with my single
> 3CX800 amp.
>
> Carl K9LA


What about two seperate antennas with a common feed? Have the 80 as a 
vertical and the 160 spaced from it a foot or so and then go to a L or T at 
the top?
If 80 is an aluminum tube then U bolt on a plate with an insulator extending 
out for the standoff.

Carl
KM1H 



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