Topband: 160m loaded tower

[Ignacy Misztal]

In a number of QSOs recently, other stations made easy contact and my
station struggled. I make sure to exclude stations on the east coast and
those with 4sq.
Ignacy NO9E

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 11:31 AM Stan Stockton <wa5rtg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ignacy,
>
> Is your thought that you are a few dB weaker based on sone kind of A-B
> test of the two antenna setups or just that you feel weaker?
>
> 73…Stan, K5GO
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 17, 2023, at 9:44 PM, Ignacy Misztal <no9e at arrl.net> wrote:
> >
> > I have a 100 ft tower with jk mid tri 40 on top. When shunt fed, it was
> > pretty competitive on 160. Recently the antenna seems to be a few db
> > weaker. The only change was adding another beam at 60ft. Could it have
> had
> > an impact? Adding the beam only marginally affected the match.
> >
> > Ignacy NO9E
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