Re: [TenTec] was - "Radiates like Crazy"???? No

["Joseph Trombino Jr" <w2kj@bellsouth.net>]

You are certainly correct that I won't get a  nice figure 8 pattern 
broadside to my antennas but I am the mercy of Mother Nature and she 
arranged the tall pines around my QTH (grin)
                                   73, Joe W2KJ

> I think you should run an EZnec model of your antenna before you put up
> another one at right angles to it.  You may find that a 90-degree offset
> will simply result in a lot of the main lobes being duplicated (in
> azimuth).  You might find that a 60-degree or 45-degree orientation
> would be better.