I have only used mine for a few tries, and I think I agree with Barry's
assessment. It is WAY better than what I had used for 160 before
and has much wider bandwidth (formerly using AlphaDelta DX-B sloper.)
But I must confess that I have had such good results with it on 80 and 40
that I have pretty much remained on those bands.
I will know more as I try it on 160... but I am already convinced it was
worth the money and effort. I have not tried it, but I am confident
Barry's results would be repeated here, and others I have talked
to using it with some extra wire have thought it worked better on
the low band that way.
I would encourage you to try it.
(Sorry, I cannot address the DX vs Local aspect.... not enough data...
very good question, though. Probably the most important part of
your question to you... )
==================== Richards - K8JHR ===============
Barry Merrill wrote:
>
> As-is, the 43 footer will work 160, but only out to about 1000 or so miles
> with 100 watts,
> over land (to the east from Ireland), and I could only work the USA east
> coast across the sea.
>
> Adding the 90 feet of wire run to a 33 foot support (a defunct BigIR) to make
> the L,
> got me out to 3500 miles to the east, and well into zone 4 in the USA.
>
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