Hello Bruce, I have a 72 ft irrigation pipe vertical for 160m. It is much stronger that your Spider pole. I use 16 ga wire for my 4 top hat wires. I'm not sure how many top hat wires you have in mind, but with 4 wires, they also act as guy wires at the top.
If you use 4 wires, the current would be divided equally, so I'm sure you can get by with small gauge wire, perhaps 22 ga, although that seems small to me. If the Spider pole is too flimsy for larger wire, you may have to guy it more often. The top hat wires need be as horizontal as possible, but on flat land, mine are pulled away from the vertical as far possible which is about 100 ft in each direction for me. You can only do what you can, but it will work! HNY & GL, Ray, N6VR PS, I see that the A70X operation is on 160m. For a rare IOTA, and to work the world, that is the last band they should be on. But I guess the guys are having fun... On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 8:31 AM, Bruce Osterberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Good Morning:\ > > To improve my 160 vertical I want to change its configuration from an > inverted L to a Capacity Hat Vertical. Vertical will be 57 Feet high with > Capacity Hat wires. I am using an 18 Meter Spider pole. I plan on running > 1.5 KW to it. Looking at spider pole website it says 18 Gage wire for the > Vertical part and 26 Gage wire for the capacity Hat. But it says nothing > about the power handling capacity of these wires, (both vertical and > horizontal). I know the spider pole is a bit flimsy at the 55 foot level > so a smaller wire is needed but I am sure someone on this reflector has the > answers I need. > > Bruce N9BX 73 > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband -- Ray, N6VR _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
