Pete - I have a smiliar array up (using 3 80 m elements). When I put
up my 160 inv vee. it did affect the resonant freq of each of the 80
m wires, and required re-pruning. I really haven't noticed any
significant on-the-air degradation in the pattern.
73 Barry
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