In the 2000s I worked a few contests running 5 watts. Two or three ARRL 160
contests using a 38' top loaded vertical at home and a couple contests from
a land bridge out in the Great Salt Lake of Utah running a full size
balloon vertical grounding to the lake. With the 38' antenna I topped out
at 2
No, I guess I should have clarified what I was saying . . .
Sure, my 160m mobile whip is much less efficient than a full-sized 160m
aerial . . . but I have calibrated the S Meter on my Mobile Rig so that it
reads the same as signals on my main aerial at home. (and both my rigs at
home have cali
