[160m] Carolina type windom

[Greenacres113 at aol.com]

I'm brand new to this reflector. I would like to  get on 160m. I am thinking 
about building my own antenna. I have the supports in  place. I have a 
tower[50'] with an 80m  inverted vee. I was thinking of  replacing it with a windom  
for 160m. I have read they are multi-band but  I'm only interested in 160m & 
80m. I have an 80m half square & a trapped  vertical that are FB on 80m DXing. 
I need something more for the  USA on  80m. I have a 4:1 balun & wire already. 
I am planning one side of the feed  point to be 90' <> &  the long side 175'. 
I have read about a  coax vertical element/feeder. Is there an exact length 
recommended  of this  vertical run? The commercial ones are apx 22' but would 
longer length be  OK?  Do you shorten the horiz. elements if the vertical 
element is longer?  I would assume I need it to terminate into an UNUN [1:1] and 
then coax to my  tuner.  I will run just the exciter as my amp doesn't cover 
160m. Do I need  to ground it at the UNUN? With wire this long can I expect wind 
static to build  up. In Tenn we don't get much snow.
If anyone has advise or comments please e  mail me off reflector.

tnx bob k9il  




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