[TenTec] SLIGHTLY OT

[Art Trampler]

I'm not familiar with "TLW." Do you have an opinion on greater than 90 degree bends, in opposite directions, rather than vertical drops? The ends are only up 29' at one end, about 25' at the other (ground is uneven, so I compensated this way).
 
There is a possibility I could string another 50' on each end, forming a nearly complete letter "Z/Zed" if you will. The antenna currenly runs NW-SE, and this would involve a run due west at one corner, and ENE at the other.
 
Messing things up, or promising?
 
Art

--- On Fri, 4/8/11, Steve Hunt <steve at karinya.net> wrote:


From: Steve Hunt <steve at karinya.net>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] SLIGHTLY OT
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Date: Friday, April 8, 2011, 2:52 PM


Irrespective of the matching problem, such a short dipole is going to 
give you very significant losses in the feedline. If you could lengthen 
the dipole to 200ft, TLW predicts the open-wire loss would be much more 
acceptable at around 0.7dB.

73,
Steve G3TXQ
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