Paul,
A famous ham named Jerry Sevick, W2FMI, wrote a series
of articles in QST on SHORT vertical antennas back in the 70's.
Included were SIMPLE, homemade test instruments, transmission
line transformers (i.e. UN-UNs), etc. It's worth a look!
I have no doubts that what Jerry did can be applied to
160 meters. Bandwidth will be narrow, but could be
extended" (within reason) with a tuner in the shack.
73, Charlie, N0TT
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