Paladin wrote:
Thanks a lot, Mike

This antenna IS getting the best of me


I know what you mean, Paladin! And 160 meters is a real booger of a
band for most of us to have a horizontal antenna. There are loaded
antennas, but I suspect you want multiband performance. I suspect you
could tune a loaded antenna cut for 160 meters, but I'd also expect that
the radiation pattern on the highest bands would be a bit weird.

Speaking of weird, I wonder in anyone has made a multiband antenna,
loaded on 160, and trapped for the other bands? 8^)

What might be a good setup to get you on 160 meters and more would be a
vertical antenna. They are a compromise, but most top band antennas are.
AFAIC, they are a compromise on most of the other bands too. That is why
I have a dipole in addition to a Butternut HF6V.

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -