[Elecraft] 160m suggestion.

[Ron Willcocks]

Hi all,
         I guess there are quite a few readers on this reflector who haven't
got the space available for a decent 160m antenna (I am one of them), but I
have been able to get my 80m dipole to tune on 160m by making it into a
"sorta" Marconi setup.
To achieve this, I have made a fitting that shorts the inner and outer of
the coax lead-in and present the result as a single wire into the ATU .
Provide a good ground and the K2 will tune up on 160m to a 1:1 swr (or it
does here) I should imagine a similar setup using open wire feeders would
obtain similar results?
Possibly "old hat" to a lot of readers, but also possibly a "new" idea for
some, and could help a K2 owner to have to look on the "Top Band".  Not as
good as a 160m dipole by any means, but makes a "useable " antenna.....
Cheers.....Ron ZL1TW
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