When I lived in California, I had a 160M dipole which went up in
the spring of 2013. It was almost full size, with one end
hanging down about 10 feet rather than go into the tree holding
that end.
I managed 47 confirmed states, missing ME, VT, and RI. I also
had 14 confirmed DXCCs.
The antenna also worked reasonably well on higher bands. 15M was
particularly good and I made a couple of FT8 QSOs to QC on 6M.
Modeling showed a pattern with a lot of fingers instead of a
single lobe. This kind of pattern made contacts more a matter of
luck than of planning.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 8/26/20 at 2:50 PM, ab7e...@gmail.com (David Gilbert) wrote:
Yes, I completely agree with that. I'm sure the folks with
low EDZ's and large horizontal loops and low dipoles make
contacts on 160m, but almost any half decent vertical will
reach out further better.
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