Tom:
I think you hit the nail on the head. I know quite a few locals that have
low horizontal antennas on 160 and 80 meters.
Yes they work a lot of DX, but when the rare one comes on, they have to wait
and wait.
I wouldn't trade my shunt fed tower for anything except 4 of the same
phased.
73 de Price WØRI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
To: <Topband@Contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Full wave Loop on 160
>> I'm afraid you may be misled by some "over stated" gloomy
> pronouncements
>> concerning the lack of effectiveness of big horizontal
>
> I can work similar DX with a dipole at the same height, and
> dozens of others have done the same with a large variety of
> similar cloud warmer antennas starting with W2EQS way back
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