[TowerTalk] 160M dipole idea for 160/80M?

Marc Tessier - VE3TES ve3tes at cogeco.ca
Mon Dec 8 23:31:40 EST 2008


Just playing around with an antenna design , I found the plans for an 80M version of such antenna on the net recently, and was wondering if this one might work for 160M as well, link >>> http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3tes/linear%20loaded%20160m%20dipole.JPG

and would it be possible to make this into a twin band dipole by adding relays to short out the lengths of ladder line? as shown here as switches >>> http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3tes/linear%20loaded%20160m%20dipole-80switch.JPG

Just looking for some input, after running the CW  test on the weekend from my 80M dipole I figured this band could be some real fun, so time to start thinking of a more efficient antenna for 160...

Regards,
 
Marc Tessier - VE3TES

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