"rb" wrote in message
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Got about 60' for a vertical. Using 160'm, any length close to this
better for 160 (up or down)? Idea is to bottom feed it with an antenna
tuner. Yes, radials will be run. Also, will top loading help or hurt?




add a top hat to it to help make it more efficient, that will definately
help. base loading or tuner will be needed to make most radios happy with
it, if you are going to use a tuner and the coax run isn't extremely long i
wouldn't bother with base loading... unless you want to run high power where
the swr on the cable may damage it, or your tuner just can't handle the
mismatch.