If you may and you are willing to indulge me; if you were about to buy 5-acres
with no neighbors or restrictions and wanted to erect a serious 160M antenna
system, what would you build and why? We can pass on the Radio Arcala
discussion; nobody's that cool.
A loaded 4-square? 1/4 wave stick (or longer)? Phased dipoles? (fill in the
blank)?
I've seen a 200' tower with three phased dipoles tilted on end. The end of one
side of the dipole was anchored and insulated at the top of the tower and came
down like guy cables. About half way down was the feedpoint, were an isolated
anchor cable continued down the same path to ground (like a guy cable).
However, the second half of the dipole was pulled back to the base of the
tower, from the center feedpoint insulator. It looked like an arrowboard
chevron or a regular dipole that was turned 90 degrees on its side. The coax
was horizontal back to the tower. There were three of these spaced 120 degrees
apart and fed with a phasing network to steer it. I understand it works great.
So what would you build?
Dino - KX6D
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