[Antennas] Best Performing 160 Meter Antenna

[DavidE Benedict]

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