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 ----- 
  From: Pat Byrne 
  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 
  antenna.
  When I worked 160 from Chicago I had never anything better than a 
  trapped dipole, 100 or so feet long, with a loading/tuning network at 
  the station end of the coax.  I suppose it was technically a top 
  loaded, thirty foot vertical, but who knows.  I also had a couple of 
  radials buried randomly under the antenna.  They couldn't have been 
  more than a hundred feet in total and they were connected to my 
  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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