[TowerTalk] 160M Antenna - Ideas

[Gene Smar]

Scott:

     Tying the feedline leads from your loop together is supposed to work. 
But keep in mind that it is this parallel pair of wires that does most of 
the radiating - they form a vertical antenna, some of which is inside your 
shack.  The loop is more of a top-hat capacitive load than a major radiating 
element in this configuration.

     Because you have only one wire lead leaving your transmitter with this 
arrangement (the para;;e;ed feedline conductors) you will need to provide a 
decent RF ground, if you don't already have one, for your station's radio 
chassis.  Otherwise, your entire shack will be hot with RF trying to find 
its way back to Mother Earth.  (Your mic will be hot.)

     If this doesn't work for you, you can still install an outdoor vertical 
wire among the trees.  Your ground system would then have to consist of as 
many wires as you can fit into your small lot (my lot is also small and I 
was able to manage a 64-foot tower plus triband Yagi that I feed on 160M 
plus an inverted L, also for 160M.  My ground system has only a few 1/4 WL 
ground radial wires; most are short but I have lots of 'em.)


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott MacKenzie" <kb0fhp at comcast.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 6:47 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] 160M Antenna - Ideas


>I have a small yard - a very small yard.  I use an 80M loop and it takes up
> 3/4 of my yard.  Needless to say, I do not have space for 120 radials 100
> feet long.  I have height - a lot of tall trees.  My interest in DX.  I 
> know
> that will be a problem, but I will be thankful for what I get.
>
> Any suggestions?  Would tying the leads of the 80M loop into a single and
> feeding it as a vertical work?
>
> Thanks
>
> Scott. AKA kb0fhp
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