One thing to remember about 160 - sometimes higher angles work for
you. Back in 1990, I was at WN4KKN's QTH near Austin, Texas and
we put up an inverted vee at 90 feet and had a very big signal
into Europe. One European later reported that the band was very
strange - first the only station he could hear was WN4KKN, then
later the band changed and all he could hear was N6TR/5.
Some of the openings last winter were high angle events where my
dipole at 10 feet located in a ravine was a better receiving
antenna than the low angle antenna (I have great luck using
my vertical as a RX antenna as I am in a quiet location).
I have worked VS6 from Southern California with a dipole up about
15 feet.
I would suggest that you will work DX with most any antenna (and
a KW). You will just work more of it with a 70 foot tower loaded
as a vertical than you will an inverted vee at the same height
however.
Tree N?TR
tree@contesting.com
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