Given that you have the 70-90 vertical rise as a given (not in play as
maybe or maybe not), what the shape of your L will do to
improve/worsen your signal will be overwhelmingly swamped (not close
at all) by what you do or don't with your counterpoise. Unintended
coupling of lossy ground by a dozen different unfortunate counterpoise
issues have resulted in installations with as much as 15 dB gone to
ground losses.
Tell us about what you intend to do for a counterpoise. Radials?
Buried, elevated? How many? How long? Miscellaneous length and angle
according to opportune support? Uniform in length and angular
distribution? How high above ground?
Those will determine how well you get out.
73, Guy.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Scott Meister <aztec@pobox.com> wrote:
> First year on Top Band and I have a question regarding my inverted L. I now
> have it 55 foot vertical with the remainder horizontal with elevated
> radials. It works well, but the neighbors will not be happy in the spring
> when they come back to their summer cottages! Hihi. I am going to move it
> to a permanent home in the woods. My question is: I can get the vertical
> portion up about 80-100 feet with the remainder horizontal. The issue is
> the horizontal part will have to slope if I put the vertical that high. Is
> this ok, or should I put it vertically high enough to make the horizontal
> portion level. And last maybe I should load it with a coil and make it only
> 100 feet tall. Your experience will be appreciated.
>
> Scott
> WB2REI
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