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Rob.:
Surprisingly, my 80-10m off center fed dipole does very well on 160m - both RX and TX (with a tuner). It is up at 60+ feet and quite a bit above average terrain so that doesn't hurt either. :)

Josh:
I think a lot of guys use a separate rx antenna, often a loop, on 160. The typical inverted L in the back yard gets them on the air, but is crap for rx due local noise sources. Some guys just short the feed to an 80m dipole and operate it as a T antenna on 160.

Traveling Wave:
Recently on AM I have been listening to 7.295 at 1700 UTC. A group of AMer's check into the Noon Time Forum hosted by KC8ZUL. Normally it lasts for 15 minutes or so,I hear mostly east coast and a few mid-west operators.

Rob.:
I enjoy listening to the AMers. You'll hear everything from military pinched audio all the way up to very wide HiFi audio. During the winter 160m gets much more active as 75m can go long and local contacts are tougher. 40m has a lot going on during the day all the way down to 7280 kHz sometimes. Saturday mornings at 8am ET is the Lonely Guys Net and they usually have a very good turn out (can sometimes run up to 2 hours) and a topic of the day that is normally very interesting. You'll get to hear AMers from all over the northeast during it.

http://www.lonelyguysnet.com/

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