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Old 03-19-2016, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Ed in Tx View Post
Yep. I've played with 160 M by loading up my 80-40-20 vertical which is about 40 ft tall with a capacitance load on top. Using a big loading coil I made from some scrap city sewer pipe about 8 1/2" diameter with about 20 or so turns of aluminum ground wire and alligator clip attachments to find a match with my MFJ antenna analyzer before I put power to it. No more than 100 W applied to it by me though.
Some impoverished peanut whistle AM station owners, mostly in small towns have had a moderate degree of success with short heavily top loaded arrays such as this:

http://www.star-h.com/docs/STAR-H%20...esentation.pdf

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