[PaQSO] Inverted-L 160m

[Bob Schreibmaier]

Hey Gang,

Al Zelna wrote:
> I am curious to know if anyone uses an Inverted-L for 160m.  I would 
> like to use my tower as the support, but have the vertical portion 
> "ganged" a few feet away.  Does anyone have one hung from a tower?   I 
> just came across an article that suggests using a non-conductive support 
> because of interaction.  I can't find any other article to back up that 
> claim.

There probably is something to the claim, but we
use whatever we have available.  In our case, it
happens to be a 56-foot self-supporting tower.
We have either 12 or 14 gauge wire (I forget which)
that runs up from a ground rod to about the 50 foot
level and then runs maybe around 85 feet out to a
PVC pipe in the front yard.  We have all of 8 short
radials of various lengths.  I think three of them
might be 100 feet long and a couple are only about
25 feet long.  None are anywhere near a quarter
wavelength.  We just put down whatever we could.

We're not king of the band with it, but it seems
to put out a reasonable enough signal.  Reasonable
enough to work 28 countries in CQ Worldwide CW
last November.

73,
Bob
K3PH

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