[TowerTalk] inverted L for 60?

Jim Miller WB5OXQ in Waco wb5oxq at grandecom.net
Thu Jan 1 20:02:13 EST 2009


I would love to get on 160 but I do not have room for a 1/2 wave dipole.
I have a 52' tall rohn 25 with a force 12 c3 at the top and a 2 meter beam 
10' above it.  The tower is guyd but the guys are insulated from the tower 
about 1' away from the legs with egg insulators.
The be of the tower is 15' from the shack and in a side yard with no more 
than 20' in any direction that radials can run.  There are 3 ground rods 
each t outside the concrete and connected to each leg with a 15' bured 10ga 
bare copper wire also atached and running in 3 directions.  The tower also 
has a Alpha Delta twin sloper for 160-80-40 connected
at the 50' level.  this antenna is not very good on 160 and cannot handle 
much power.  The longest direction a wire can run from this tower is 130' to 
anther 30' tower at the back corner of the yard.  I have a TenTec 238 tuner.
Suggestions?
WB5OXQ 



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