Thinking about different 160 antennas makes me reflect on one I had back in northern Illinois in 94-95; I had a Heights aluminum fold over tower around 110' to the top where there were a 10, 15 & 20 KLM 5 element monobanders. I didn't have enough property available to run out a good number of radials for the low bands so instead I made a pair of Shortened Delta loops connected at the apex and fed in the center. these were oriented N-S and E-W and were held off the tower by long ceramic standoffs.
I ran a vertical stub held around 8" off the tower & around 10' long as a gamma from the feed point. At the feed point I had a vacuum variable around 500 pF . Attached to the vacuum variable was a servo, and in the shack was the matching servo. What made it especially nice was the 1:1 I would get at the feed point across the band. I was only able to run it for a season till I had to relocate but it really worked well. I was new to 160 at that time and up till then I'd made only a few 160M contacts using random wire & a tuner. Fun the things you experiment with that work out well. 73, Gary KA1J --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
