[160m] 160 meter Inverted L antenna

Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:06:20 -0500

Burch:

Note that you don't **need** to bury the radials
for them to work. The only reason to bury them
is to keep the spousal unit happy, or to keep
them out of the lawnmower blades. If you can,
just lay them out on the grass/ground, and pin
down the far end.

Grass cutting is not an issue in the Winter in
the North: put out a bunch  of temporary radials
during Winter, and roll them up in the Spring!.

73,

  Jeff Maass  K8ND

  Caribbean Contesting Consortium - PJ2T
        http://www.pj2t.org
http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass/Radio/PJ2T_Aerial.htm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of Burch Akin
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 7:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [160m] 160 meter Inverted L antenna
>
>
> Thanks for all the responses to my previous emails regarding my 160 meter
> antenna question.  I have started working on an inverted L.  I have buried
> 11 radials so far (didn't realize how much work that is!) and am
> planning on
> having around 30 radials total when I am done.  Some are as long
> as 80+ feet
> and some will be 8-10 feet but most of them will be around 60 feet.  I do
> have a couple of more questions...
>
> 1)  How far away from the tower should the vertical section (about 50-52
> feet) of the L be?  I only have two directions (sides) of the tower that I
> can connect to.  The side I would like to connect to is close to
> my deck and
> I can only put it about 6-12 inches away from my tower.  On the
> other side I
> can put much more space between the vertical and the tower but it will be
> more difficult to tie the end of the horizontal section ( the
> other side has
> a tree that I can tie to.)
>
> 2)  I have an inverted V dipole up for 160 currently that I will have to
> take down to keep the L from interfering.   If I decide to put up a
> receiving loop in the future, how far away must I keep the loop from
> interfering with the inverted L?  I have two towers on my small
> lot, but my
> second tower is only 30 feet tall and is probably only about
> 35-40 feet away
> from the bigger tower.  Would this be far enough away from the L?
>
> Thanks again for everyone's input on my project.  Hope to catch you all on
> 160 meters soon.  Now, back to digging up the back yard for more
> radials......
>
> Burch
> K4QXX
>
>
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