Topband: 30-Foot Vertical

[Mark - N5OT]

Hi Roy - you mean for 160 meters?  I think there are plenty of credible 
ways to cobble odd pieces of tower together to make a useful antenna, 
especially if climbing it is never something you need to do, and if it 
crashed to the ground it's not that big a deal.

If you're asking if a 30 foot vertical can be made to be useful on 160 
meters, I think, depending on the definition of "useful" the answer can 
definitely be YES and I can think of a whole lot of QSOs that have been 
made with verticals about that tall.

73 - Mark N5OT


On 6/4/2019 8:41 AM, Roy Morgan wrote:
> Hello Topbanders,
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> I have three 10-fot sections of triangular steel tower, about 8 inches on a side.
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> Is it practical for me to make a useful vertical with these, either bottom fed or gamma matched?
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> Thanks for advice or experience.
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> Roy Morgan
> K1LKY since 1958
> k1lky68 at gmail.com
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