Topband: Quarter wave sloper ?

[Gene Smar]

Not exactly, but close. I installed an 80M 1/4 wave sloper (a/k/a half-sloper) wire off my 64 foot tower at 50 feet. Above the wire at 66 feet is a  Bencher Skyhawk tribander where I shorted all the parasitic elements to the boom for extra top-hat loading. The sloper seems to be pretty broadbanded and I can work into the Canadian maritime provinces and UK and western Europe pretty regularly from Maryland with 100 Watts.
FWIW.
73 de Gene Smar AD3F 

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  On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM, jim.thom jim.thom at telus.net<jim.thom at telus.net> wrote:   Has anyone had success with a 160m,  1/4 wave sloper....hanging off a 90'
tower, with a 40m yagi just above the top of the tower ?
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