Topband: 160 portable vertical

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PaT

What Mike says is only partially true about receiving antennas ..... 
Ideal yes ..... but not necessary...especially for a casual family 
vacation DXepedition and I think Mike might have missed the part where 
you said in DECEMBER, a quieter winter month . I worked well over 100 
countries with Inverted L's and no receiving antennas for years. This 
year alone I have worked 21 countries and 47 states so far this SUMMER 
with an inverted L and no receiving antenna ( over half of those on CW 
for you who like to trash FT8) . If you were going to do a contest and 
try to be highly competitive then a receiving antenna would be a good 
idea to be sure ...Maybe a BOG on the beach 8^). Your biggest challenge 
will be being heard at all, running QRP or low power... There are a few 
died in the wool low power guys on here who will disagree with me but 
160 is a big amp band IMO more so than any other.

Dave
NR1DX


On 8/7/2019 5:02 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
> and then you need to be able to hear the people calling so you will 
> want some kind of receiving antenna.
>
> On 8/7/2019 11:13 AM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
>> Hi Pat,
>>
>>
>> Your #1 friend will be 127' of vertical(ish) wire (ie: inverted L) 
>> and a few
>> ground radial wires or better still 3-4 raised radials and a tall 
>> palm tree,
>> otherwise I am afraid you'll be sorely disappointed in any kind of short
>> compromise (loaded) antenna with summer (QRN) condx and QRP and/or LP 
>> (K2 is
>> 15w, correct?).
>>
>>
>> There's no getting around physics and you're going to be very weak and a
>> full sized antenna is going to be your best bet to being heard.
>>
>>
>> GL
>>
>>
>> Mike VE9AA
>>
>>
>> Planning on going to some island in the Caribbean this December. 
>> Unless I
>> find
>>
>> a friendly ham, will bring along my Elecraft k2 and operate qrp or lp.
>> Looking
>>
>> for ideas on an easy to setup small vertical antenna to bring.
>>
>>
>> N8vw
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>>
>> Keswick Ridge, NB
>>
>>
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Dave
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