Topband: shortened & low dipole for 160M--transmit/receiveissues

[sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)]

Hi Frank,

I worked 150 countries on 1.8MHz using a bent dipole at 45' high - made out
of a 3.5MHz flat-top dipole, with 66' of wire soldered onto each end and
sloped/drooped semi-vertically down to two 8' poles.  Used to call it an
inverted-U, which was a rather grand name for it.

It is the centre 132' of the antenna that is going to do most of the
radiating - what happens to the rest of the antenna ain't that important.
An inverted-U shape is better than inverted vee to my mind because the
average height of the antenna is better.

Vy 73

Steve, VK6VZ