Topband: Pennant "downtilt" for lower TOA?

[W2pm@aol.com]

Downtilting UHF antennas is a common practice in cellular but is the  concept 
practical on topband with a Pennant?  I was converting a Flag to a  point fed 
Pennant yesterday - installed on a hill with the high side being the  
termination side and the lower side the feed - and direction of interest.   After I 
rigged up the new configuration it was twilight and I noticed  performance was 
far poorer - except on local sigs which were still quite good.  Generally the 
locals are worse on the Flag/Pennants. This AM I went out and saw  that the 
point of the Pennant was considerably pointing high and the long  pennant 
triangle quite distorted.  I fixed it up but the point now faces a  bit downward 
from the level horizontal plane. Performance appears back to normal  and I have a 
lot less local crud noise.
 
The problem is these observations are without any controls and thus  
anecdotal - even the crud noise may just be lower today..  But my Q is  given the 
Pennant (and Flags) aren't ground dependent, is it possible to lower  the take of 
angle by downtilting?
 
73 Pete, W2PM