[Elecraft] Inverted L for 160 meters

[Bill Frantz]

When I lived in California, I had a 160M dipole which went up in 
the spring of 2013. It was almost full size, with one end 
hanging down about 10 feet rather than go into the tree holding 
that end.

I managed 47 confirmed states, missing ME, VT, and RI. I also 
had 14 confirmed DXCCs.

The antenna also worked reasonably well on higher bands. 15M was 
particularly good and I made a couple of FT8 QSOs to QC on 6M. 
Modeling showed a pattern with a lot of fingers instead of a 
single lobe. This kind of pattern made contacts more a matter of 
luck than of planning.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 8/26/20 at 2:50 PM, ab7echo at gmail.com (David Gilbert) wrote:

>Yes, I completely agree with that.  I'm sure the folks with 
>low EDZ's and large horizontal loops and low dipoles make 
>contacts on 160m, but almost any half decent vertical will 
>reach out further better.

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