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September 19th 04, 02:26 PM

(William) wrote in message . com...
PAMNO (N2EY) wrote in message ...

I sold the fixed-up Viking 2 and VFO a year or two later, and moved away from
that QTH in 1999. Someday I'll get back on 160.

I have lots more...

73 de Jim, N2EY

Ask Brian/W3RV about his inverted "L." It's meant for absolutely
every situation and every band. You just can't miss with his antenna.
There's no reason to stay off of 160.

No Burke, wrong again as usual. I very recently stated that it worked
just ducky 3-15 Mhz didn't I Putzlet? I did not claim it worked on 1.8
Mhz.

Any number of times, mostly for your benefit, I've stated that the
thing was a 135 foot OAL end fed wire without a radial system. Which
is to say that the only way it could work even half decenly would be
if it's feedpoint impedance was some high R+jX value which would
minimize it's ground losses given it's lack of a decent radial system.
I had kids in the yard, I couldn't do radials. So no, I didn't even
try it on 160, I knew better, on 160 it would have been a dummy load
because it would have been only a quarter wave long. Not that I would
expect you to understand why one does not feed the end of a
quarter-wave wire when there are kids in the yard...But on 80 and 40
it cooked because it was hot-fed. R+jX = some nice big vector sum you
see.

No, of course you don't see it, silly me.

Now Burke, once more what's the story on the sked to show off the
end-fed wire you supposedly have eh? Or is it in the same category as
your T5 operation?

Date/time/freq pse?

w3rv