[TowerTalk] Was Radials... 160m High angle vs. low angle

[Paul Pescitelli]

Vertical... I believe it was the battlecreek special or a variant thereof

Paul - K4UJ

On 6/16/06, Keith Dutson <kdutson at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Speaking of low wire antennas, what was used on Peter I for 160?
>
> 73, Keith NM5G
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> I cannot speak for the entire world, but here on the right coast of the usa
> sometimes 160 signals do come in quite high at sunrise or sunset.
> Not every day but it does happen.  Once in a while even on long haul dx the
> inverted vee at 60 feet will beat the vertical...I have never seen it other
> than during the grey line, but that does not mean it does not happen.  I'd
> say vertical is better 95% of the time and the vee only about 5% of the
> time.
>
> My best memory example  is T32 a couple of years ago at my sunrise.  He was
> S9 on the inverted vee for about 15 minutes.  I worked him easily on the
> vee, switched to my club call and could not raise a peep out of him on the
> vertical. You can indeed work dx on 160 with a low dipole.  You will need
> lots and lots of persistence tho.  Kind of like doing qrpp on 20 with a
> normal antenna farm.  73 bob de w9ge
>
> Jim Jarvis wrote:
>
> >Having a 160m inverted vee with the apex at 60' is like having a 10m
> >inverted vee with the apex at 4'.  It's a cloud burner.
> >A 160m dipole at 100' is a LOW antenna.
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