[TowerTalk] Fw: Fw: 80M Delta Loop

[Jim Brown]

On 7/25/2024 11:54 AM, Fernando Gonzalez, EC1CT wrote:
> After many attemps with verticals and mostly any kind of wire antennas, 
> I stick with an inverted vee at 70ft for 80 meters
> and an Inverted L with 4 elevated radials for 160...

Great choices, Fernando. Even with poor ground, a vertical with a good 
radial system is the best choice for 160M if you can rig it -- almost 
any horizontal dipole less than 80m high is a low dipole on 160M! When I 
first moved here in 2006, I rigged both a dipole at 120 ft and the 
Tee-vertical that I still use. In many A/B comparisons during two 
seasons, the vertical nearly always won. During daylight hours, I can 
regularly work good stations to 1,400 km on the vertical, while the 
dipole never even got a QRZ?

73, Jim K9YC