On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:53:50 -0500, "rb" wrote:

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?

Go here and check out what the recent Clipperton Island DXpedition was
using on 160M: http://www.clipperton2008.org/dxpedition/antennas.htm

The photo of the 160M antenna is at the bottom of the web page.

It's basically your 60' vertical with a top hat consisting of four 46'
wires and a four 132' radials.

They had a good signal here in SoCal. The antenna inventory also
listed a balloon lifted vertical, but the operators were almost always
talking about the high winds and rain they experienced. I'll be
interested to find out if they were able to use the balloon at all
under those conditions.

S.T.W.