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That would have made a nice tower to load on 160m if you had some radials. Back in '86 when we moved the CFAB 1450 AM site myself and the other engineer on staff at the time loaded up the new 160 foot tower which was a full 1/4 wave on 1450 KHz. The tower was series fed as it was sitting on a rather large ceramic base insulator. We had the advantage of 120 radials and a wonderfull dykeland field near salt water.Our 100 watts created big pileups into Europe on 80 and 160m. After that tower went hot we did the same thing at the decommissioned former site with it's little 96 foot vertical with a six foot "bicycle wheel" top loading hat. It worked quite well too but not as good as the 160 footer.

<blockquote data-quote="Captain Kilowatt" data-source="post: 266287" data-attributes="member: 39"><p>That would have made a nice tower to load on 160m if you had some radials. Back in &#039;86 when we moved the CFAB 1450 AM site myself and the other engineer on staff at the time loaded up the new 160 foot tower which was a full 1/4 wave on 1450 KHz. The tower was series fed as it was sitting on a rather large ceramic base insulator. We had the advantage of 120 radials and a wonderfull dykeland field near salt water.Our 100 watts created big pileups into Europe on 80 and 160m. After that tower went hot we did the same thing at the decommissioned former site with it&#039;s little 96 foot vertical with a six foot &quot;bicycle wheel&quot; top loading hat. It worked quite well too but not as good as the 160 footer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":thumbup1:" title="Thumbs Up&nbsp; &nbsp; :thumbup1:"&nbsp; data-smilie="27"data-shortname=":thumbup1:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 266287, member: 39"] That would have made a nice tower to load on 160m if you had some radials. Back in '86 when we moved the CFAB 1450 AM site myself and the other engineer on staff at the time loaded up the new 160 foot tower which was a full 1/4 wave on 1450 KHz. The tower was series fed as it was sitting on a rather large ceramic base insulator. We had the advantage of 120 radials and a wonderfull dykeland field near salt water.Our 100 watts created big pileups into Europe on 80 and 160m. After that tower went hot we did the same thing at the decommissioned former site with it's little 96 foot vertical with a six foot "bicycle wheel" top loading hat. It worked quite well too but not as good as the 160 footer. :thumbup1: [/QUOTE]

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