Topband: low inv-vee

[Larry]

I seem to recall reading that the "ideal" angle between the legs was 110 
degrees. How that was derived or even if it is true I do not know.

I had a half sloper and converted to an inverted vee. I had done fairly 
well with the half sloper and not too bad with the inverted vee but with 
the inverted vee I would occasionally see cluster comments that I was 
deaf from EU. Nothing scientific here. Plotting QSOs between the two 
showed that the more distant QSOs were on the half sloper but that could 
be propagation or other factors not specifically because of the antenna. 
The half sloper was attached to a 100 foot  45G at about 66 feet and the 
inverted vee apex was at 95 feet suspended out from the 45G. At the top 
of the 45G was a KT36XA, 80M rotatable dipole, and a 2 el 40M yagi. The 
two were not up at the same time so there is no true A/B comparison and 
RBN wasn't around yet.

73, Larry W6NWS


On 3/29/2018 12:11 AM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> We live in two countries separated by a common language.
>
> In the states, we consider any wire in a "v" shape suspended upside 
> down to be...wait for it... an inverted vee, regardless of height as 
> far as I know.
>
> Are you suggesting that in Merrie Olde England there is a specified 
> angle between legs that define a "v"?
>
> Wes  N7WS
>
> On 3/28/2018 2:23 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
>> ...You'd have to have the centre at
>> least 100ft high for it to be an inverted vee.
>>
>> Roger G3YRO
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