[Elecraft] Inverted L for 160 meters

[Ronnie Hull]

I have 100’ long   wire up 30’ and am working good stuff on 160 nightly!!

Ron W5SUM 

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> On Aug 26, 2020, at 12:10 PM, David Gilbert <ab7echo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> When I made that suggestion (based upon his comment that he was only going to have about 4 counterpoise wires), I thought that he was going to be using elevated wires ... i.e., about ten feet high or so.   NEC2 can model that reasonably OK.  Four buried radials won't model well at all in NEC2, but it also doesn't make a very good antenna.
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> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
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>> On 8/26/2020 9:48 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
>> Right on, John! Also N7WS, who urges study of N6LF's authoritative site. Rudy is a major contributor to ARRL Handbook and Antenna Book. And to AB7E who urges modeling. You can't model radial/counterpoise systems without a far more capable version of NEC, but you CAN model the difference between horizontal and vertical antennas and heights of both.
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