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Re: [TowerTalk] What to do when you have no height

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] What to do when you have no height
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:05:16 -0800
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A low horizontal antenna is both inefficient (because it is low) and a poor DX antenna (because what little radiation it produces is at high angles. John says he has no height. To make that a good DX antenna it would need to be up at least a quarter wavelength, and twice that is better.

73, Jim K9YC

On Fri,2/5/2016 2:21 PM, Spencer wrote:

     Horizontal Loop for 80-Meter DX, aug 2002 QST

I used a relay to switch phasing on the feed line.
Spencer W1GAK

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