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Re: [TowerTalk] 160 vertical advice

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 160 vertical advice
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 22:31:48 -0800
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On 2/10/2018 1:28 AM, Bill via TowerTalk wrote:
The antenna is directly fed with 50 ohm cable and the SWR   is 1:1 at 1825 and 
is less than 1.3:1 across 1800-1900 kHz.  It looks into the tower in the 
direction of North America.

I agree with those who say there's a lot of loss. But the other part of the equation is, what's your ground like? That has a lot to do both with loss under the antenna and with propagation.

73, Jim K9YC

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