[TowerTalk] 160-m Inverted L or Sloper?

[Tom Rauch]

> Even if you could change the tower to whatever
configuration you wish,
> plus have an extensive radial system, the best you can do
from a sloper
> is around 1 dB gain, which is very close to what can be
achieved with a
> quarter wave vertical. Most sloppers are several dB down
from a good
> vertical. There are also cases for very tall towers where
the thing
> becomes a high angle radiator and worthless for DX, but
most of us don't
> have towers like that, except for maybe Tom.

That's right Jerry, and that's really the bottom line. The
best we can hope for is a tie with a shunt fed or series fed
vertical or Inverted L. The worse is something much worse
than that.