Hello Mike
You do not mention anything about the local electrical distribution system. IF
you do not have to worry about antenna wire contacting local power wires, you
could use a half-wave vertical suspended by a balloon. EASY to feed such an
antenna.
Two 160-meter contests ago I tried such an antenna using ~#30 magnet wire. At
100-watts in my early evening it was working stations to my East (CN97uj QTH)
quite competitively until the rain arrived and weighted-down the antenna. Too
late to buy a second party balloon to keep it in the air. Next time I will use
_several_ balloons instead of one.
Good luck with whatever you employ for the contest.
73 Dick/w7wkr CN97uj and CN98pi
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1. Best way to jury rig a quick 160m contest antenna?
> (Mike Smith VE9AA)
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> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:29:35 -0300
> From: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
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> Subject: Topband: Best way to jury rig a quick 160m contest antenna?
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> Upcoming IARU contest this summer. I'll be away from home. No access to
> outside world from shack. None. Zero, Zip, Zilch, Nada.
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> Small Tribander (1 coax)
> 40m and 80m inverted Vees.
> Separate coaxes. All runs are likely 100' long.
>
> How to get on 160m for mults?
>
> Mults and Q's are very small potatoes on 160m in this contest, but certainly
> there's 5 or 10 mults possible. I'd rather not give away some of my score.
>
> Would like to come up with something really quick (so I can check band
> often) and not have to plug/unplug coaxes or mess with jumpers etc.
>
> No ground radials possible. No more coax runs or control cables possible.
> No access outside the shack. Just the 3 coax runs. That's what I have to
> work with.
>
> Maybe a plastic switchbox of some kind that shorts the 2 leads of the 80m
> vee together (to give you a radiator-The center)
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> and another switch to short the 40m vee together for one raised radial-The
> braid? Can I match this mess with the tuner in a K3?
>
> Rather not mess with other tuners.
> Looks messy on paper. Might not even work. I don't even have 40m and 80m
> inverted vees here at home to trial anything.
>
> Surely someones done it when they've travelled somewhere on a Contest
> DXpedition to some residents DX location at some point in the past?
>
> Ideas? Tnx
>
> Mike VE9AA
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
> Keswick Ridge, NB
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