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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> Subject: Re: [BLIND-HAMS] 160
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> 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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