[TowerTalk] 160 Meter Antenna Suggestions

[WA3GIN in Alex. City, VA]

You might think about placing some spokes at the top of the tower to act as
a capacity hat.  We recently installed a 50ft center loaded helical antenna
for our county emergency 7X24 AM 1700 station.  They manufacturer used six
102" whips equally spaced around the top of the antenna with a 3' egg beater
on top.  If anyone would like to see picture of the helical antenna that
cost about $5,000 let me know and I'll post some on our club web site
www.w4ava.org


73,
dave
wa3gin


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Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:40 AM
To: mryan001; TowerTalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 160 Meter Antenna Suggestions

Mike:

     To me, <small residential lot> + <tower with XXX HF antenna> on it =
shunt-feed on Topband.