[PaQSO] Inverted-L 160m

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What I did was hose clamp the shield side of a hy-que dipole center insulator and run the 135' element out into the trees but it works better with a ground reflector or best is a reflector 5 feet off the ground.
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Later, 
John 


-------------- Original message from Bob Schreibmaier <k3ph at ptd.net>: -------------- 


> 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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