[Antennas] Best Performing 160 Meter Antenna

[KZ5V]

Gary,
   My suggestion:  Use an antenna   ........... (U can build em betr than U
can buy em)
- with a low take off angle and a lot of gain, also the serious dx-ers all
use high power amplifiers.
- operate in the winter time, stay at your summer home and fish, the
'catchstatistics' are better,  than in the noisy band summers
-  exeriment with different antennas, your two choices will work, but not
the best choices. (report back to the group with the results after a years
use.
- pray to the patron saint of DX
- read all the good books on the subject, this will take you until the new
sunspot cycle arrives., and you will appreciate your accomplishments more.
- look for a wife who owns a daytime broadcast station
- dont let me or anyone else rain on your parade, but after the  long
expensive task is accomplished to get the perfect antennas up, you will
find, there isnt much dx on 160 , it is easier to work it on 20m, or 15 or
ten, instead, any other band actually.
-  pay particular attention to the articles on 1/2 wave verticals, they
require no radials, but a counterpoise is nice and still adds up to 6 db
gain.
- re - read the material on 4 square antenna's , you might like the results
-73's and good digging, I mean dx hunting ... Gene
PS - look at info on low noise ferrite hand held 160m antennas, they can
outperform any tower on receive.
-  I want a summer home on the Riveria too ...

-----  Original Message -----
From: "DavidE Benedict" <iam at pmug.org>
To: <wa1tjb at yahoo.com>
Cc: <antennas at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Antennas] Best Performing 160 Meter Antenna


> wa1tjb at yahoo.com writes:
> >Any suggestions on what would be a good antenna?  I
> >really want to chase DX on 160.  I have considered a
> >Carolina Windom and a Butter HB-9V vertical, but I
> >want to here what everyone thinks.
> >
> >Tnx es 73 de Gary
> >WA1TJB
>
>
> Hi Gary...
>
> If deciding on a vertical, I'd try using a mid-loaded vertical, like a
> screwdriver type of thing...
>
> That is, basically, electrically: a "wire", to a coil, to a "wire"; the
> first "wire" in vertical orientation.
>
> I'd like to see this modeled for directivity when the second wire, is,
> perhaps, mostly horizontal.
>
> I'd go up beside my house with coax,
> add a balun for matching at the top of the coax,
> continue with a "whip" of some substantial pipe or other,
> continue with adding a coil atop the "whip"
> and take off from the top of the coil with a wire horizontally to wherever
> I could.
>
> I might use a 4-6 foot buried 2" metal pipe to carry the coax and the
> ground up to the roof level and to which to mount the whip and etc. up
> further into the air.
>
> I think that the "whip" portion would be the major radiator, but, with a
> long horizontal wire there could be substantial radiation from the wire
> part of the antenna, too.
> -- Maybe??
>
> See below. Any helpWhat do you think?
>
> David
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Horiz Wire>>>
> C
> C  C= Loading Coil
> W
> W
> W
> W  W=Strong pipe for "whip"
> W
> W
> BB  B=Balun
> H
> H
> H   H=2" dia base/vert metal pipe
> H
> H
> GH
> GH  GH= Pipe buried 4 feet in ground
> GH
>
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