[TowerTalk] 160 vertical advice

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Thu Feb 15 01:31:48 EST 2018


On 2/10/2018 1:28 AM, Bill via TowerTalk wrote:
> The antenna is directly fed with 50 ohm cable and the SWR   is 1:1 at 1825 and is less than 1.3:1 across 1800-1900 kHz.  It looks into the tower in the direction of North America.

I agree with those who say there's a lot of loss. But the other part of 
the equation is, what's your ground like? That has a lot to do both with 
loss under the antenna and with propagation.

73, Jim K9YC



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