Topband: Best 160 antenna

[Mike Waters]

The importance of a ferrite choke balun at the feedpoint cannot be
overemphasized. A good design for 160m is 5 or 6 turns of coax wound
through five stacked 2.4" 31-material ferrite toroids. Photos and details
on my web pages referenced earlier.

I had two elevated radials. It is a well-established fact that four 10' or
12' high 1/4 wave radials are as good as 120 on the ground.

73 Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Aug 27, 2017 12:53 PM, "Mike Furrey" <mikefurrey at att.net> wrote:

Hi Gary,
For many years I used an inverted L between two tall pine trees and one
elevated radial that was L shaped to fit on the 90' x 60' lot I had in
Spring, TX. The radial was about 15' up and it was fed through a choke
balun.