[TowerTalk] 160 Meter Antenna Suggestions

[Pete Smith]

Beware of running high power, though - the voltage at the top of the tower can arc over insulated elements, according to anecdotal reports and RF engineer commentary on Towertalk.  I have run 200 watts to a tower with a 40M Force 12 yagi on top for years, but would hesitate, I think, to go much higher.

73, Pete

 At 07:39 AM 11/18/2006, ersmar at comcast.net wrote:
>Mike:
>
>     To me, <small residential lot> + <tower with XXX HF antenna> on it = shunt-feed on Topband.  Granted, your SteppIR might not be ideal as a capacitive top-hat for this purpose as the elements are insulated from the boom (or are they?)  But absent tall supports for an inverted L, shunt-feeding your tower/HF Yagi is a cheap enough alternative that is worth trying, IMHO.
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>     Search the TT archives for hints or drop me a line directly for some details.
>
>
>73 de
>Gene Smar  AD3F
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>From: "mryan001" <mryan001 at tampabay.rr.com>
>> Being on a small residential lot with no room or very tall supports for a
>> 1/2 wave dipole or inverted vee, I bought for 160, one of those "shortened
>> dipoles" which has come up VERY short on results. One possibility that I
>> considered is that there might be a commercially made dipole ( trapped I
>> would suppose ) other than the 82ft model, that can offer something on 160?
>> I have on the crankup tower, 3 ele SteppIR, and some vhf/uhf antennas.  Off
>> the side of the tower already are a 75 meter inverted vee and a Carolina
>> Windom. It is reasonable to assume that the loss of these wire antennas from
>> the tower would not be a great loss at this point as I have verticals for 40
>> and 75 that out perform them here on the (salt) water.  Suggestions?  -Mike
>> 
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>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Inverting a Delta Loop?
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