TopBand: Re: Low angle versus high angle

[Earl W Cunningham]

Steve, VK6VZ writes:

Unfortunately, vertical polarised antennas don't work too well in some
places - like in the Perth area of VK6, for example.  Mike VK6HD and I
both use dipoles - myself an inverted-U at 66 - 45' high, while Mike has
an inverted-V at 90'.  Both of us have tried a range of vertical antennas
on 160m - from inverted-Ls to top loaded verticals to shunt fed towers,
but horizontals work better.
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Steve, it might be interesting if you or Mike tried a vertical again for
comparisons, but this time with 4 elevated tuned radials.  Radials
sloping upward from the ground would be an easy way to do it.  Your
opinion of the results would lend some insight to the elevated/on-ground
radial controversy.

73, de Earl, K6SE


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