I managed to get one onto my 110X60 lot with some effort. It looks more
like a "S" than straight, but gets me on the air. I feed it as an
offset dipole to get on a number of bands. I also have a pair of
inverted vees for 30M and 15M. Unfortunately, the coverage of the house
on the lot won't allow me to put up a tower and beam combination.
Erich, N6FD
Richards wrote:
> I agree with K4SAV - with only one minor exception... considering
> typical urban lot sizes, for many ham I think the cross-over band
> is 40 meters.
>
> Getting an 80 meter dipole up high enough, and long enough, is hard
> to do on a typical city lot, whereas one can usually fit in a 40 meter
> dipole at a reasonable height on a typical city lot.
>
> I would love to squeeze a half-wave 80 meter dipole on my city lot
> and I will buy a big steak dinner for the guy who figures out how I
> can!
>
> ================ K8JHR ========================
>
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