You might be able to feed it as a random length  with a tuner.  You'd
probably need to work it against some kind of ground but it might work.  Lou
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Vece" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: 160


> 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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