[TowerTalk] 160m OCF etc

[r miles]

I won't try to comment on the theory of the engineers. I can just speak 
of my personal experience with one. Because of the location  of the 
center support I had to try an OCF. My short side actually sloped a bit. 
I simply put a half wave long 160m OCF with the peak height of 51'. 50 
ohm coax to a 4:1 balun at the feed point.  It was no world beater but 
in 3 yr.s running 500w I did work  127 DXCC entities.
In 54 yr.s in the hobby I still  tell new OPs: try it. If you are 
limited by whatever reason give your antenna thoughts a real world try. 
Don't let the nay sayers put you off. Put up what you can & see if it 
works. We are experimenters. That's why we are called amateur operators.
One of the new hams in our club lives in an apartment. He's playing with 
a very small loop on HF. In the last few months he's wrkd about a dozen 
entities. Not too bad. He put  up something & gave it a try.
Every antenna we consider standard started life as an experiment....

K9IL