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Re: [TowerTalk] 160m ANT

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 160m ANT
From: "David Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>
Reply-to: David Thompson <thompson@mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:26:48 -0400
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I have had several Inverted L's up including a Spi-Ro 160 short dipole L 
with feed and vertical up 70 feet and the horizontal pointing at the SE but 
going from  70 feet down to about 55 feet.  I was gangbusters into PY.

I think sloping the horizontal wire has some of the effect of a sloper with 
some directivity toward the slope.  I found that most inverted L's are 
mostly omni but somewhat oval to and away from the horizontal wire.

I agree that vertical wire should be as far from the tower as possible. 
Even antenna guru K4DLI runs a ground U only a few feet away from his 70 
foot Rohn tower.

73 Dave K4JRB 


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