[TowerTalk] A couple of 18HT questions

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you mean like a screwdriver antenna coil? 

> On 12/17/2014 11:30:03 AM, KJ6Y--- via TowerTalk (towertalk at contesting.com) wrote:
> > Another way to add 160 to the Hytower is use one of the  mobile  antenna 
> coils from Hi-Q or similar.  You then have a  remotely tunable antenna for 160 
> and 80, with out having to change taps.
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> Skip,  KJ6Y
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> In a message dated 12/17/2014 6:24:12 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
> patrick_g at windstream.net writes:
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> The  Hy-Gain Hy-Tower (AKA  can work 160 with the base loading coil but 
> it  is not my preferred method.  If you have room for the "horizontal"  
> run, Hy-Gain has a kit to add 160 meters in a way I like better as it  
> requires no tapping of the coil and switching the coil in or out of the  
> circuit (not convenient.)
> 
> The kit consists of a 40 meter trap which  is attached to the vertical at 
> the top of the 24 ft triangular portion and  continues on (bare antenna 
> wire) to the supplied end insulator (provided)  forming an inverted "L" 
> configuration.  The 40 Meter trap is to keep  the long wire from detuning 
> the antenna's 40 meter function. This makes  160 band switching 
> "automatic" like the other bands.
> 
> Oh, ...and