At what height please do you have your dipole(s)? I imagine that
will make a significant difference in performance.
Thanks! & 73, DavidC K1YP
> As has been already stated, an 80M dipole makes a GREAT
> WARC Band Antenna if it is reasonably flat (horizontal).
> ...
> FWIW, I have worked over 300 countries on each of the WARC
> bands using a pair of 80M dipoles and a pair of 20M dipoles fed
> with ladder line which produce a figure 8 pattern on ALL bands
> from 10 through 30 Meters. If you place such a 20M dipole
> in the same direction as the 80M dipole, it will fill in the holes
> in the pattern of the 80M dipole, giving world wide coverage
> with only 2 fixed dipoles.
>
> de Tom N4KG
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