Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna?

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 12/24/2014 3:39 PM, Art Roberts - W5AER wrote:
> On the thought of a low dipole:
>
> Years ago in Northern California, as an experiment, I had a VERY low
> dipole and got some strange results. Listening to a local station, in
> the afternoon, there was very deep QSB. We were able to talk, but with
> difficulty.
>
> 73,
> Art  W5AER
>

Were you cross polarized; IE was the other station running a vertical?
If so, minor fluctuations in propagation could result in major
fluctations of polarization cancellation.

Rick N6RK