Topband: 160 top loaded vertical question (Kees Nijdam)

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Kees,

A 50 ft high vertical with two top hat loading wires each equal length 
about 67ft will work great with a good ground field. It can easily be 
fed with a 4-1 toroidal transformer 50-12.5 Ohms. Absolute minimum 
radial field would be 30 1/4 wave radials adding as many possible short 
radials in space if required.

A small inductive coil wound on base insulator can easily tune the 
antenna to the band segment you want. Use large diameter copper tubing.

73


Bob

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