[TowerTalk] Adding 160 to an 80M dipole?

[Jim Brown]

On Wed,12/17/2014 10:46 AM, RLVZ--- via TowerTalk wrote:
> I  thought the short vertical would do better on DX, but the short
> vertical was down 10-20dB in every case.

Did you have a good radial or counterpoise system on it? That's needed 
to minimize loss in the soil near the base of the antenna. Salt water 
helps (a lot) in the far field, but the soil under the antenna can burn 
a lot of RF that never gets to the far field.

73, Jim K9YC