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Team Steve & Steve give an overview two vertical antennas that we use for the CQ 160 ssb Contest. We switched to a vertical design in order to pick up more DX stations. A dipole for 160M is nearly impossible to get high enough for DX. These two really worked well this year for us. Design and measurements below.
Steve Ad4xt
1/4 wave elevated vertical:
Base was 10' high
vertical element 130' 14ga. copper strand insulated wire
5 elevated radials 17 ga. aluminum fence wire at 10' 130' long
vertical element goes up 55' then inverted L to a tall tree.
EFHW 160M / 80M
custom built transformer for 160 / 80
3 core 290 x type 43 mix.
3 turns on the primary
wire goes up 60' then inverted L to 85' pine.
Both worked very well.