Joe WB9SBD wrote:
and Rick N6RK wrote:
and there were other naysayers.
I have been using a very similar antenna tower to that described by Joe for the
past 18 years. (325' with 120 x 1000' radials.) It works noticeably better than
my 95' top loaded vertical over 120 x 150'+ radials. For
On 12/2/2020 12:02 PM, Joe wrote:
Our club is working on a project where we will be able to use a AM
Broadcast antenna on 160 meters.
Joe WB9SBD
Th
I wouldn't get too excited about this project.
The big groundplane is nice, but doesn't replace
the "vertical on the beach" at all. The
Bear in mind that if you want to work Europe, there are loads of wide
Beacons down the bottom of the band. These work like the old HiFix Beacons
(so are quite wide), and are located in the Baltic and used by Fishing
Trawlers for navigation. They pretty much wipe out 1800 to 1815 kHz over
here,
When I purchased this property in Hawaii, there were two 830kc towers
left from the
KAIM 50KW station. I made a matching network and loaded up for the
Stew perry,
only had my exciter so ran low power, if I remember correct I was
number 1 low
power world wide.. but my memory is corrupted
On 12/2/2020 12:02 PM, Joe wrote:
Our club is working on a project where we will be able to use a AM
Broadcast antenna on 160 meters.
Don't get your hope up. Roughly 40 years ago, I did that, along with
another ham, at a daytimer for which another ham friend was the chief
engineer. As I
Our club is working on a project where we will be able to use a AM
Broadcast antenna on 160 meters.
It should be fantastic! on 160 the antenna will be almost a perfect 5/8
wave antenna.
Between that and the incredible AM broadcast band radial system, it
should be incredible.
BUT And
