No counter poise. Am using the 88 foot QSO-King by NU0R. It's up about 30 foot. Has a line isolator in the feed coax. Jim On 2/1/2018 12:34 PM, Matthew King -

I decided to look in my logbook to see how long it's been since Barry and I worked. It's a 2265mi trip from Hamilton, GA to North Vancouver, BC. I got him twice last year on 20m with his VB7150 call.

Dick, I observed, over the past 8 months or so, that generally N/S is working much better than E/W from here on the east side.  Used to be a slam dunk to the Euros.  All you had to decide is to

Hello all ..... I am using a homebrew fan dipole 5 bander 10m,15/40m,20m,40m and 80m. It is center fed at 25' with a coax choke running South to North. I also have a dedicated full length 160m dipole

Hey, Jim - what sort of counterpoise are you using on your end-fed wire? How high is it? How long is it? Inquiring minds wanna know more! 73 Matt AK4MK Virus-free. www.avast.com

I've been watching this with some interest, as I have the "Top Band disease" and conclude a number of things: 1) 160 is not fair, propagation can be one way (I hear you, you do not hear me...) 2)

Using an end-fed wire. Oriented kind of NW-SE. And running about 50 watts.  Crank it up to 80 watts at times on this band, but any higher start getting ALC.  SWR is about 1.4 on the wire. My

Dan, I have heard (and personally observed) what we consider to be a bit of a defense against excessive in-migration, particularly from California and south. Folks who move to Western WA from those

I'm using a simple 160M dipole at about 25" an I have hadgood luck on 160. But again, most contacts have been East coast lataly. Randy W4RTT From: 070Club@groups.io <070Club@groups.io> on behalf of

Rick - that's a bit of surprising news with your inverted L, as verticals dominate on top band from what I hear. For transmitting I mean... the beverages and other "different" antennas are supposed to

Like Rick, I find the propagation better N/S than E/W. Worked N2MLP in PA last night. Saw a couple of faint traces, but could not get any decode from them. Only heard a couple of CW signals and no

And this on antennas on small lots.. audiosystemsgroup.com/160MPacificon.pdf

www.solar.spacew.com/cq/cqmar98.pdf

Maybe this will help... http://www.spacew.com/www/160pred.html

I would like to hear how you are top loading that vertical for 160M...I am using a Cushcraft AP8A..and can almost get it to tune on 160..well, get the swr down to 2:1 anyway..but who knows what the R

HAVE TO AGREE Its hit or miss

Think it might be a combination of all those factors plus a bit of "luck". Had a bit of luck with my 160m Alpha-Delta DX-A homebrew dual sloper on 160 and managed to work a station in Iowa running 5

Jerry- No worry Jerry, I think you qualify as "wise," but you've got to be from a long line of native born in Florida to be a "cracker" - hi hi. Google "florida cracker."

Rick: Not trying to be a wise cracker, but I think the answer to all your questions is YES. Propagation has a lot to do with it, but so does the antenna, power out, soil conductivity, time of

Jim- You may have said earlier and I missed it, but what are you using for an antenna on 160?  If it is a wire, how is it oriented?  How much power are you using? Rick - N7WE -- *Rick -