Vertical Antennas

[KM1H]

I have the room and height and run a 160/80/75 inverted vee with one coax and no switching. It busts pileups on CW on both bands which tells me it is doing its intended job.
On AM the signal reports are good when the angles cooperate. I just wish more AMers had decent seperate receive antennas.

Carl

[wd9ive]

the 18HT with a good radial system do a nice job on 40 & 80 if ur into long haul work. 80m bandwidth not so good. I've tried both options for the 18HT on 160 and not impressed with either one.

[K5UJ]

two things about 160 I forgot to mention:

1.  Always run your biggest maul on 160.   If you have a Valiant and a BC610, get the 610 on 160.  It may not seem important if you have a low noise level at your QTH (a low dipole on receive can provide that) but the guy on the other end may need all the S/N he can get.  Hams with low antennas hearing great, may not get why their DX100 is not "armchair" copy.  If you have a GK500 or T3 for heavens sakes fire it up.

2.  Low dipoles are better than nothing at all of course.  Here's what I notice about them on the rx end (I don't know why this is but I have observed it many times):  signals from low dipoles (30-40 feet high or less) exhibit rapid deep QSB nulls.  

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Rob