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Pat Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:21:03 -0600
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Anthony,
Try series tuning the feed line with either a variable capacitor or 
tap down on a piece of coil stock until you hear an increase in 
receiver noise/signals.  Then see how the transceiver tunes.  I would 
try one side of the feed line, then the other since the top elements 
are of different lengths, and try with the feed line shorted together.
I envy your antenna and its height!!  I don't have the horizontal 
length to run that antenna.  I used one of forty meters several years 
ago on forty meters during Field Day and I was really impressed.
Good luck and enjoy 160.
Pat,K9JAUAt 04:07 PM 1/27/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Pat;
>
>I have a Carolina Windom.  Is their any way I could get it to work on =
>160?
>
>They antenna is 130 FT. long however, the apex is about 50 FT. in the =
>air and it is just not long enough I'm afraid.
>
>73 De Anthony W2AJV
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>   ----- Original Message -----=20
>   From: Pat Byrne=20
>   To: [log in to unmask]
>   Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 4:43 PM
>   Subject: Re: [BLIND-HAMS] 160
>
>
>   A person can do a credible job with 100 watts and a short, well tuned=20
>   antenna.
>   When I worked 160 from Chicago I had never anything better than a=20
>   trapped dipole, 100 or so feet long, with a loading/tuning network at=20
>   the station end of the coax.  I suppose it was technically a top=20
>   loaded, thirty foot vertical, but who knows.  I also had a couple of=20
>   radials buried randomly under the antenna.  They couldn't have been=20
>   more than a hundred feet in total and they were connected to my=20
>   stations ground rod.
>   My best DX was San Francisco on CW at about 40 watts.  Made me pretty =
>proud!!
>   It's a great band.
>   Pat, K9JAUAt 03:05 PM 1/27/2007, you wrote:
>   >Folks, I regularly work the arrl 160 contest and will be in the cqww
>   >tonight.  My antennas are as follows:
>   >1. 120 foot physical length dipole with 20 feet of loading near each
>   >end, and a drooping tail at each end.
>   >Amounts to 180 feet of wire in the air.  This is at approximately 25 =
>feet.
>   >
>   >2. 90 foot half sloper fed against the 30 foot tower supporting the =
>feedpoint.
>   >
>   >Neither of these are anything near optimal, but in the cw contests,
>   >do reasonably well.
>   >
>   >Good luck to all participants..
>   >
>   >
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