Bill, Since this is a temporary installation you do you get some thin insulated wire and lay 30 to 60 radials on the ground. You have to carry more wire but you won't have to worry about supporting elevated radials.
I use 16 conductor surplus ribbon cable for this purpose. Mike N2MS ----- Original Message ----- From: bills stuff <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:00:15 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Topband: ITINERANT 160 M ANTENNA PROJECT The plan is to develop a simple, relatively inexpensive, relatively light weight and shippable/airline transportable 160 antenna kit for one man quick deployment for modest DXpeditions or contributed for use by resident hams in rare-ish (for 160 m) locations. The ability to make adjustments to actual deployments to provide matching is important since such antennas are famously variable due to soil and local obstruction environment and there should not be a need for antenna matching hardware, especially at the planned higher powers. <snip> Inv L top wire end was at ~ 2.5 m height with a support of opportunity (e.g., a tree) ~ 25 m from base I am looking for collaborators to contribute ideas to help improve, and potentially, test design issues. Check out the website at http://n6mw.ehpes.com for the Itinerant 160 m antenna project expanded discussion toward the bottom. The immediate target is designing and assembling a respectable 160 m antenna that might go to KH8 on a DXpedition. Bill, N6MW billsstuff(at)gotsky.com _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
