Hi Mike, It is a 78 Ft tower with 2 triband Yagi’s shunt fed with a few radials. It’s about 50 feet from the waters edge.
Stan K5GO has considered putting up a 160 meter vertical closer to the water but the shunt fed tower has performed extremely well in past contests and DX’ing so we haven’t changed what’s working!! 73 Joel W5ZN / ZF2ZN > On Dec 1, 2025, at 4:16 PM, Mike Fulcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Joel, > > What is the antenna there for 160? You were loud here in Phoenix. > > Mike KC7V > >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM jon jones <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Great score Joel at ZF5T on 160 Meters! >> >> The geomagnetic field was active during the CQ WW CW with storm conditions >> Friday evening. And with thunderstorm QRN Saturday evening it made for >> challenging conditions from the Caribbean on the Topband. >> >> 810 contacts in 75 countries is amazing in light of this. >> >> 73 — Jon N0JK >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 13:13:18 -0500 >> From: Joel Harrison <[email protected]> >> To: uy0zg <[email protected]> >> Cc: Kenny Silverman <[email protected]>, Topband >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Topband: TK0C skimmer on 160 >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >> >> Hi Nick, >> >> I was the 160 meter op at ZF5T. Thanks for the Q and glad to put you in >> our log. >> >> Condx from ZF Friday evening to EU were very gud but around 0330z to 0400z >> the band went pretty much dead to EU. There was no EU SR peak. >> >> Saturday around 0130z we had horrible QRN from a storm somewhere in the >> Caribbean that made copy on 160 and 80 near impossible. It calmed down >> around 0300z but condx were very bad to EU and sigs weak. >> >> To the west our furthest contact was with KH6J and one other station on >> Hawaii but that was it. No JA?s or anything else. We had JA?s spotted on >> the cluster but they were being picked up by a JA skimmer. >> >> Overall it was a good weekend but could have been great with some better >> condx and no QRN during the Saturday evening session. We finished with 810 >> Q?s, 18 Zones, and 75 countries on 160 from ZF for the weekend. >> >> 73 Joel W5ZN / ZF2ZN >> >> _________________ >> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband >> Reflector >> > > > -- > 73, Mike KC7V > Arizona Outlaws Contest Club > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
