I won't try to comment on the theory of the engineers. I can just speak
of my personal experience with one. Because of the location of the
center support I had to try an OCF. My short side actually sloped a bit.
I simply put a half wave long 160m OCF with the peak height of 51'. 50
ohm coax to a 4:1 balun at the feed point. It was no world beater but
in 3 yr.s running 500w I did work 127 DXCC entities.
In 54 yr.s in the hobby I still tell new OPs: try it. If you are
limited by whatever reason give your antenna thoughts a real world try.
Don't let the nay sayers put you off. Put up what you can & see if it
works. We are experimenters. That's why we are called amateur operators.
One of the new hams in our club lives in an apartment. He's playing with
a very small loop on HF. In the last few months he's wrkd about a dozen
entities. Not too bad. He put up something & gave it a try.
Every antenna we consider standard started life as an experiment....
K9IL
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