Steve, VK6VZ writes:
Unfortunately, vertical polarised antennas don't work too well in some
places - like in the Perth area of VK6, for example. Mike VK6HD and I
both use dipoles - myself an inverted-U at 66 - 45' high, while Mike has
an inverted-V at 90'. Both of us have tried a range of vertical antennas
on 160m - from inverted-Ls to top loaded verticals to shunt fed towers,
but horizontals work better.
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Steve, it might be interesting if you or Mike tried a vertical again for
comparisons, but this time with 4 elevated tuned radials. Radials
sloping upward from the ground would be an easy way to do it. Your
opinion of the results would lend some insight to the elevated/on-ground
radial controversy.
73, de Earl, K6SE
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