[AMRadio] Different bands

[Brett Gazdzinski]

A few years ago, I tried an Alpha Delta LB plus, which is a dipole for 160 
to 10 meters that is 120 feet long.
It uses loading coils (no traps) for the 160 and 80 meter bands.
If you keep the AM power under about 200 watts, it worked quite well, for 
the first time I heard good signals on 160 meters!
I ran more then 200 watts into it and melted the coils (wound on pvc pipe).
Its a fan dipole on 40 to 10, and I just left that part up.

Nothing that is shorter then its supposed to be will do as well as a full 
length antenna, but it was not bad at all.

For small lot sizes, you can also get something like a butternut vertical, 
they have one that does 160 to 40 meters that is 43 feet tall and self 
supporting. Strong antenna's, mine was up for 20 years and never had 
problems.
Needs lots of radials though.

You can also bend up antenna's, a friend used to run a dipole that was a U, 
with the lower part over the house, each leg running to the back yard.

Brett
N2DTS