[Elecraft] Inverted L for 160 meters

[Jim Brown]

On 8/28/2020 4:38 PM, Rick Bates, NK7I wrote:
> For the record, I agree but as I made no series of qualifying tests;

I've done both building and modeling. When I first moved to W6 in 2006, 
I had a 160M dipole up about 110 ft redwoods AND a Tee vertical about 80 
ft vertical with enough top to resonate it, and about 50 radials on the 
ground, varying length. I worked a lot of contests over several years, 
always A/B comparisons. The vertical almost always won, often by a lot. 
With legal limit, I could reliably work good stations 800 miles or so 
two hours before sunset on the vertical, not even a "QRZ?" on the 
dipole. And that dipole was more than twice as high as most hams could 
rig. When I lost the horizontal dipole in a storm I didn't consider 
repairing and re-rigging it.

Modeling predicts the vertical outperforms at most vertical angles.

73, Jim K9YC