I strongly agree with bending the ends in whatever direction works.
My novice antenna was a 40/80 fan dipole with the 80m ends bent way back
beyond 90 degrees. It worked.
Another approach would the a shorter, open wire or ladder line fed
dipole. I believe L.B. Cebik wrote well of an 88' dipole covering 80m
and up, so a 44' dipole should do well on 40 and up.
Ken WA8JXM
On 25/04/2015 16:50, Wes Attaway (N5WA) wrote:
Without getting into a never-ending discussion of "which antenna is
best", I would suggest that you consider just dropping 3 or 4 feet of
each end straight down so that the remaining horizontal length will
fit in your available space. Most of the current is at the center so
performance is not much affected (if any).
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