[TowerTalk] 160M inverted L

[ersmar at comcast.net]

Jerry:

      Forget about loading that last leg of your L.  Just string up the required 133 feet and let the last leg bend however necessary to get it into the space available.  I did that with a 3/8 WL L a few years ago and it worked well.  

     As an alternative, you might consider shunt feeding your tower.  If you have a decent Yagi on top of it, you can probably get the tower to take power at 160M.  Check the archives here and on TopBand for ideas.  OR drop me a note.  I've had both an L and a shunt-feed on my tower.  Both have their advantages, but the tower is about 5-10 dB better than my L ever was.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F
> Hello all
> I'm trying to get something up for 160m.  I've been using my 80m loop
> and a tuner but its real hard to tune and not very effecient.  Maby when
> I get my balanced tuner project done that won't be a problem but for
> now it is.  Thinking about a 160m inverted L but space is still a problem.
> I can support the vertical portion with my 40' tower and I have about 80'
> from it to a tall wooden pole. Thats too short and too close but thats all I 
> have to work with.  I try to avoid loaded antennas because of effeciency
> but what if I added a helical loaded section near the end of the horizontal
> leg (opposite end from the vertical segment)??  
> I would end up with a 38' vertical section,  a 70' horizontal section and 
> about a 5' section of helical loaded wire.  That gives me about 5' for rope
> on the pole end.
> Any thouights on this or should I go back to a low dipole or some commercial
> vertical and live with it???
> Thanks
> JerryC
> KC8TES
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