Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 241, Issue 13

[Richard Karlquist]

On 2023-01-09 09:26, Mamuka Kordzakhia via Topband wrote: 

> Dear friends,
> I need your advise: I found a very high tower with 100m high. I need to fix a very effective antenna on 160m band. What kind of antenna will be better for contesting?
> 73!
> Mamuka4L2M 
> 
> W8JI famously had a 350 foot (over 100 meters) tower with a dipole strung from it. 
> 
> He reported that the dipole worked fine, but not any better than 
> 
> his quarter wave vertical.  You could affix catenary ropes to a 
> 
> tower and use them to hold up a 4square.  But you don't need 
> 
> anything that tall.  
> 
> Rick Karlquist
> N6RK