CHAPTER 18Antennas for 160 Meters
One of the most explosive growth areas of amateur radio interest worldwide in the past decade has been the 160-m band. Topband, as it is called by its aficionados, presents today’s active amateur with extreme technical and operational challenges and opportunities. Part of this comes from the physical dimensions required for efficient antennas, part from the high noise levels often found at these low frequencies, and part from the fact that there are aspects of 160-m propagation that remain an enigma to even the experts.
Efficient transmitting antennas for the medium-frequency band (300 kHZ to 3 MHz) pose certain difficulties for the user. Of course, the first thing that springs to mind is the large size of those ...
Get Practical Antenna Handbook 5/e, 5th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
