[TowerTalk] 160 antenna revisited

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 12/8/2014 6:50 PM, john nistico wrote:
> I do not do the ARRL 160 contest but
> I did it this year. I ran an inverted v at 150 ft apex and a 1/4 wave vertical. Both put out well however the v seemed to hear better.Between the 2 I managed to break the NLI record held by W2CWW. So I think for cq160 I will do the same and add a coax rx loop. Any other ideas?
>

My experience is that low dipoles or inverted vees normally receive
better than my transmit vertical.  The vertical is way
better on transmit.  YMMV.  I am going to try a low dipole
on receive for SP.

Congrats on your high score but I still missed NLI this
year :-)

Rick N6RK